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Read Office, 


Comparative 
Figures For 
Fifteen Years 


Reserve and Undivided Profits 
May Bist 1895, $ 346,460. 


QUEBEC, 


2,000,000, 1900, 573, 117. 

“. 1905, . 2,500,000. “ «1905, 1,239,824. 

Feb. 27th. 1908, 3,201 ,400. Feb. 27th 1909, 2,045,950. 
Deposits Total Assets 

May. 3ist 1896, 8 4,904,128. May 31st 1895, $% 7,802,009. 

* “1900, 6,573,637. + * 1900, 11,001,189. 

ey «1905, 16,533,876. te ae | 22.767,100, 

Feb. 27th 1909, 25,693,386. Nov. 30th 1908, 34,062,408. 

April 3rd 1909, 26,845,000. Mar. 3ist 1909, 35,198,244. 


SL ACOMES | BRANCH: 


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, A Poor Man ‘s 
‘Chance! . 


‘Or a good opportunity, 
- for: a 'speculator to. 
make money. 


we 

» Good enim section 7 miles fiom 
Lambe 45.acres broken, partly tenn 
good soil. . Price $1,400. 


Good half. section 1 mile from railway 
station and creamery and school. Price if 
taken at once $1,100. 


A good stock farm, 2 miles from cream- 


_ ery, $1400. Terms easy. prada for horses 


and cattle. 


A five roomed house and lot 50x140 close 
in, well and pump, rented $10 per month. 
price $1,000, $250 down, balance to suit 
purchaser. 


An 8 roomed house and large lot, price 
$250 down, balance can be arranged. 


Small Cottage, 4 rooms, nice lot, price 


$600: “Terms. 


A 3 roomed cottage with stable, $700. 
Terms easy. 


A 7 roomed house with large barn, price 
$2500, $250 cash, balance by monthly rent. 


Town lots from $85 up, and easy terms 
of payment. 


First class driver and rubber tired buggy 
and harness, complete, $300. 


First class saddle pony, with new Eng- 


lish saddle; make a first class polo pony; 


14 hands, weight about 850 Ibs. 


epent 
with saddle $125. 


We can insure your horses and cattle 
egeinet death from any cause. Rates low. 
hy run any risk? Cal! and see us. 


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Employment Agency. 


Ww. Crow & Son, 


Lacombe, en 


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W. F. GRAHAM, Manager. 


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The Charter of the Child. 
One of the things which makea 


dren. 


ed in the Eastern Provinces, and 
now taking time by the forelock, 
patriotic ladies and gentlemen ot 
Alberta have interested themselves 


id this universal movement and a 
Children’s Aid Society has been 
formed in Calgary and Edmonton, 


It is'asad commentary on our 


inevitable outcomes. of. the city is 
the destitute child. Old .truisms 
tell us that the child is the father 
ot the man, and if we would train 
‘a ghild we must start with ‘his 
grandfather. 
ee dyies pherefare i in- presenting a re- 
sume, Of Bome of the principle 
evil #imed at.in' the. old country 
by the. Children's Act 1908, which 
came into free ‘on the first day ‘of 
April 

Under the heading of “Infant 
|} Life Protection,” the law relating 
tothe regulation of baby farms is 
strengthened. It is provided | hat | 


ay 


of one or more infants under seven 
years of age, apart from their par; 
ents, or having no parents, such 
person shall within forty-eight 
hours of recejving the infant prive 
to the Board ot 
Theo the children are 


to be visited from time to time by 


written ‘notice 
Gu trdians. 


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“protection visitors,” whose duty 


is to see not only that the nursing 


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is satisfactory, but that the prem- 
ises are in youd sanitary order. 
The guardians are given power to 
fix’ the bumber of infants who may 
be kept in any dwelling. 

The second part of the Ac: is 
concerned with the various forms 
of cruelty and neylect. Every 
year the deaths fiom overlaying 
in bed reach a total of about 1,600 
and those from unguarded fires 
In both 
these cases the Act imposes a pen- 


about the same number. 


alty against the parent or other 
Where a child 
under seven loses its life or suffers 


adult responsible. 


injury by fire, and there has been 
no fieguard protection, a tine ot 
$10 may be inflicted, 

The growioy evil of juvenile 
smoking is dealt with in Part 3 of 
the Act. The vendor 
to a boy or girl, apparently under 


who se I» 


whether for 
will be liable 
the 
case of a first offence to a fine 
not exceeding ‘£2, in thd case of a 
second offence to a fine not exceed- 
ing £5, and in the case of a third 
or subsequent offence to a fine not 
exceeding £10. 


or cigarette papers, 
their own use or pot, 
on summary conviction, in 


LACOMBE, jaativamiy MAY 6, 1900 


modern civilization that one of the fjuvenile offend: rs. 
rf. 


whieté'a person undertakes fOr re- Tes | certuin cases 1s"iine* the 


ward the nursing and maintenance | °F guardian of the child in trouble 


Moreover, constables and park-|of Agriculture. 
keepers are charged with the duty |aual event. 


‘jot seizing cigurettes or cigaretie 


papers in the possession of any 


this presefit age a memorable one person under sixteen whom they 
hasbeen ithe discovery of thejmay find smoking in a street or 
child. Throdghout the civilised |public place. 
world the continually failing birth} {tis quite possible to imagine de- 
rate has roused statesmen to! {fant juveniles giving the police 
consideration of how the waste al and other guardians of their mor- 
child life may be prevented, but als no ‘end of trouble, and an 


In this connection 


apart from that an interest hag|@™Musing picture to this effect was 
been aroused ‘in children as chil} drawn by Mr. Balfour when the 
Associations for. the prot| smoking clauses were under dis- 
tection of children have long exiat-| cussion in the House of Commons. 


Automatic machines, for the sale 
of cigarettes, if shown to be’ ex- 
tensively used by children, are to 
be subject to an order of removal. 

Parts four and tive of the Act 
consolidate the laws relating to in- 
dustrial schools, and make import- 
ant innovations in the treatment of 
Their provi- 
sions aim at the abolition of im- 


prisonment for children and the], 


complete separation of the juvenile 
adult 
There are to be special 


misdemeanant from the 


criminal. 


We make no apol-/courts for children, which, in New- 


castle will be held on Wednesdays; 
and the police are to prevent as 
far as practicable, a child or voung 
person while being detained in a 
police station from associating 
with an adult charged with an of- 
fence. Special places of detention 
are aiso to be provided for juve- 
niles who are on remand. 


Power is given under the Act 


and the larger and improved use 
of industrial schools in liet of pris- 
on is ‘arranged for. The imprison- 
ment of youny people is permitted 
only in the most unruly cases. 
There are strict clauses against 
children being allowed in places of 
ill-repute, and their presence in 
the bars of licensed premises is 


also prohibited. “If any person 


” says one Clause, “or Causes 


gives, 
to be given to a child under the 
age of five any intoxicating liquor 
except upon the order of a duly 
qualified medical: practitioner, or 
in case of sickness, or apprehend- 
ed sickness, or other urpent cause 
he shall on summary conviction 
be liable to a tine not exceeding 
£5.” Then it is provided that the 
holder of a licence shall not allow 
a child under 14 to be at any time 
in the premises, except during the 
hours of closing; and another im- 
portant clause reads: 

“If the holder of a licence acts 
in cgntravention of this section, or 
if any person causes, or procures, 
or attempts to cause (r procure, 
any child to go to or to be in the 
bar of any licensed premises, ex- 
cept during the hours of closing, 


he shall be lable, on summary 


the age of sixteen, any cigarettes conviction, to a fine not exceeding 


in respect of the first offence, forty 
shillings, and in respect of any 
subsequent oticace, £5” 


June 2 is the date set for the big 
stock sale at Lacombe, The sale 
will be held under the auspices of 
the Alberta Cattle Breeder's Asso- 
ciation and the Alberta Department 
It is to be an an- 


TheW.E. Lord Co. 


Have You Seen the Latest in 
Summer Blouses? 


The new lingerie styles in summer blouses were 
never so pretty before, aud in our waist section you 
will find many of the most charming American styles, 
They are made from soft lustrous Lawns and Mulls in 
good full sizes, beautifully trimmed with pretty lace 
aud embroideries. The workmanship is of a charac- 
ter that will bear the closest inspection. Every seam 
and hem is as carefully turned as if it were ‘done by 
hand, and they are more perfectly proportioned than 
the majority of made-to-order garments, 

Notice the dainty embroidered fronts with just 
the right amount of fullness, and the fashionable long 
sleeves in connection with the excellent materials and 
you will be surprised at the moderate prices. 

New tailor made styles in White Lawns and 

Ginghams..............00- $1.50 to $1.75 

Lingerie styles...75c, $1.00, $1.50 to $7.50 


Flour is Sure to Go Higher 
Buy Now 


Lay in a supply of Flour while the price is reasona- 
ble. Wheat has risen to highest point in years. 
Millers will be compelled to raise their prices in very 


‘near fature. We were fortunate in having several 
~ care of Five Roses, Purity and Harvest Queen Flour 
' contracted at the old prices. BUY NOW. 


oo... een } $8.5 
Bled Rodee. ei iat eben .. 3.60 
Harvest Queen........ 0.0 eee ees 3.25 


Special Prices in Large Quautities. 


THE W. £. LORD COMPANY. 


STORES 


LACOMBE 


RED DEER 


H. THORNTON BOLT 


Auctioneer, 
Commission Agent. 
nancial Broker. 


Stockmen: 
A BUNCH OF DEAD HORSES 


Were All Insured and Paid for by 
British American Live Stock 
epncarrent" Limited, 


To Whom it May Concern: 

This is to certify that we have this 
date received a cheque for $1340.00 from 
the British American Live Stock Asso 
ciation, Limited, of Vancouver, B C., in 
payment for the loss of ten horses in- 
sured with them, 

Yours very truly, 
(Bigoature) M. JANSE, 
Per (Sgd.) B. C, JANBE. 


Dated at Lethbridge, Alta., this 12th 
day of April, 1900. 


Live Stock Salesman and 


Insurance and Fi- 


Lands Bought and Sold. 


This Concerns Your Pocket! 


Valuable Stallion Died. 

To Whom it May Coocern:—This is 
to certify that, on February 10th, our 
Clydesdale stallion “Chartesfield Chief” 
was sick with inflamwation of the bowels 
and died about ten o'clock the next day. 

That we carried a policy of insurance 
op him with The British American Live 
Stock Association Limited of Vancou- 
ver, B. C. 

That our “Proof of Loss” was comi- 
pleted and mailed to them on February 
19th, and that we have on this day re 
ceived their check dated February 23rd, 
for One Thousand Dollars, the full 
amount of our claim. 

Dated at Lethbridge this 2nd day of 
March, 1909. 7 

(Sed.) WM, A, & BH. C. OTT. 
Witness (Sgd.) W. C. 81MMONBS, 


A Square Deal and Quick Action Every Time! 


I represent the only Company io Canada that insures all kinds of live 
stock, whetber registered or common, and issues a policy that covers 


death from any cause. 


A word to the wise is enough. 


Fix that iosurance right away, To- 


morrow may be too late, and you are $1,000 in the bole, 


Write, phone or call, 


Over Government-Tele phone Office, 


P. O. Box 88 


Phone 100. 
Nanton Street, Lacombe 


prlmmarer ote tree sgt eneteniieme ahha) Aly te <P etal 


He had 
Tescued her like a hero 
to leave her that way, and for 

‘a tot of wretched cattle—it was too 
provoking! 

“Do any of you know that man?” 
asked Mr. Renwyck. 

“Ain't never seed him afore,” 
their guide. . 
he says, though, be sure 
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the girl, “it certainly 
I wish | knew his name.” 
f find it fer ye, miss,” said 
° the guide, “although ‘tain’t jest: the 
“thing to ax a gent’s name out here. 
‘The boys gener’ly don’t use their own 
mames on a range. They've frequently 
reasons for not mentionin’ of ‘em. 
it, wotever his name is, he’s a man, 
right.” 

“He is, indeed,” said Miss Renwyck, 
and then she promptly collapsed a sec- 
ond time, . 


CHAPTER III. 

CHARD WILLIAMS, a young 
man of twenty-four, a gradu- 
ate of the University, of Tex- 
as, had spent the two years 

since he had won his sheepskin on a 
rangé of his own, which had come to 
him through his mother. Foolish dif- 
ferences had arisen between him and 
his father, in which the young man 
‘ ‘was generally in the wrong. A recon- 


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cifiation had been effected, however, a | 


short time before the arrival of Mr. 
Renwyck, and Richard had combined 
his cattle with some of his father’s. 
It was this 
ly ended the life of Miss Renwyck. 
The day after the departure of Ja- 
cob Renwyck and the young lady Rich- 
ard Williams had saved in so daring 
and romantic a manner the young man 
‘was summoned to the ranch by a mes- 
sage from bis father. ing that 
it was war to the knife between bim 
and his former partner, the Texan laid 
his plans to bring to his feet the 


echemers of New York. It was the) 


west against the east, and no mercy 
was to be shown on either side. 


Richard’s experience had been on the | 


practical side of the business. He was 
his father’s son, however, and Bill Wil- 
liams had every confidence that he 


could be safely intrusted to look after | 


his father’s interests in New York. He 
explained the details of his operations 
carefully to the boy, provided him 
‘with the necessary credentials and 
told him to hustle east and get in com- 
maunication with a firm'of brokers with 
whom his father already had dealt, 
who were to advise with Richard with 
regard to whatever action was re- 
quired. 

Of course the young man learned the 
details of the quarrel between the two 
partners, apd a few questions put him 
in possession of the name and address 
of the girl who had made so deep an 
impression upon him. With unusual 
discretion, be said nothing whatever 
to his father about the adventure. 
Such things do happen outside of 
beoks, and Richard was thoroughly in 
Jove with the girl whom for one brief 
mjpoment be had beld in his arms. He 
was more than willing, therefore, to 
earry out bis father’s wishes. 
pursuit of the old man’s business he 
was determined that he would find 
time in some way, ip spite of the rup- 
ture, to further bis own affairs. The 
mere fact that enmity bad given a 
place to friendship and that there wa) 
open warfare between the two houses 
added zest to bis love affair. He bad 
cut her out from a herd of steers, and 
he had faith that he could wip ber 
from the Wall street “bunch,” as he 
phrased it, or from any other group of 
men who, if they had his appreciation 
of a good thing. would surely be stam. 
peding in her direction whenever she 
appeared. 

Ip due season, therefore, Richard 
Williams arrived in New York, where 
he settled himself comfortably at the 
St. Regis. Preliminary to entrance on 
his financial campaign, and especially 
in the hope of waking himself out- 
wardly more fit for his role of a pas- 
sionate pilgrim, be discarded bis San 
Antonio clothing, including his soft felt 
hat of sombrero-like dimensions, for an 
outhit so completely up to date that his 
best friends on the range would not 
have recognized bim and then plunged 
into the buginess which bad brought 
him sorth. He presented himself at 
the offices of Messrs. Benton & Cart- 
‘well, in Wali street, where the prepara- 
tory details looking toward the fipal 
adjustment of his father's complicat- 
ed interests» with Mr. Reawyck were 
put ip train for settlement with amaz- 
ing celerity. Where ip Teves desks 


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which hi@ Bear-|~ 


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erick in record . 
Mr. Benton gave him « hurried smile 
hurried hand. “The—er—culf 
iw into beef, | trust. Honored 


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exception of the sale of ane inrge 


batch of m bonds, which conid 
not be for at least a month 


upon one subject—picking up the trail, 
Bo to fpeak, of Miss Harriet Renwyck. 
It was an easy task, for the “sign” 
was good and plenty, as a cowboy 
would bave phrased it. He easily lo- 
cated the offices of old Jacob Renwyck 
on Broad street and learned without 
difficulty that the family were at pres. 
ent occupying their country place 
near Irvington-on-the-Hudson, . But this 
knowledge, after all, was of little 
value. He could not present himself 
as the son of William Williams for 
obvious reasons, He smiled as he pic- 
tured his father’s apoplectic rage at 
such a proceeding and ceased to smile 
at the fancy of his visiting card in the 
hands of the tartar, Jacob Renwyck. 
He made a fiying trip to Irvington 
and walked around the. extensive 
grounds several times in the hope of 
catching a glimpse of his divinity, but 
failed, even from the vantage point of 


He leaped for his Ufe to the sidewalk. 
the surrounding wall, to discover a 
single inmate, with the exception of a 
groom exercising a horse and riding 
with a curious up and down English 
motion that nearly turned the Texan's 
stomach. He returned to New York 
despondent, but with a mental picture 
of the home in which she dwelt. which 
was like a crumb of consolation. He 
grew the more restiess and unhappy 
on that account. He did not want 
crumbs; be craved the whole loaf. 

He visited the theaterg and the op 
era, but his thoughts were not with 
the painted puppets of bygone days. 
Throughout the mimic tragedies—he 
was in no mood for comedy—he saw a 
more stirring scene: A piebald bron- 
cho, quivering between bis knees as it 
tore through a bunch of plunging 
steers, a weigbt in bis arms and a limp 
bead hanging backward, a cheek that 
bad brushed his own. With her a ten 
¢eut show would be a beavenly enter- 
tainment; without ber “Gotterdammer- 
ung” was just a noise. (thers not in 
love have thought the same. 

He spent his time in wandering aim- 
lessly about, making and rejecting one 
idiotic plan after another. He was en- 
Urely unknown in the city, lonely, mis- 
erable and as far from weeting the ob- 
ject of bis affection as though he were 
back again in the Lone Star State. 

Ou the morning of the fifth day of 
his suspense while crossing upper 
Fifth avenue he was nearly run down 
by a coffee colored touriug car which 
recklessly swung around a corner, 
skidding as it took the turn. He leap- 
ed for his life to the sidewalk, turned 
and was about to express a candid 
opinion of the driver when bis sulphur- 
Ous salutation was exchanged for one 
of surprise and pieasure. ‘The offend- 
ing automobile bad come to a stop, and 
in its solitary occupant Richard recog- 
nized-a friend of former days, one 
George Henry Fitz-Clarence de Courcy 
Howard, earl of Croyland. 

This genotieman had speot several 


} months with Richard op the rapeb to 


Texas, and, while the two men had 
few tastes in common, still a friend- 
ship knit upon the boyndiess plains is 
usually more lasting than one cootract- 
ed in the whirl and rusb of city life. 
lo geperai appedrauce the two were 
bot unlike, both bionds, rather tall and 
marked witb the braudinxg iron of vig- 
orous manbood, although Ricuaru was 
the younger, tbe fresber uud the more 
virile. The earl baud been in America 
for perbaps a year, seekiug Ly vurious 
schemes to rehabilitate av \mpoverisb- 
ed estate and io all bis undertakings 
meeting with indiffereut success. He 
had become the sole owner of a “salt- 
ed” wine in Colorado; be bad recouped 
in Birmingbam reali eState, only to 
“drop bis pile” again lo lexas cattle. 


gad!” Lord Cro¥iand sigygested « spin 


Jin his motor, and Ridhard, who had 


nothing but lefeure on his hands and 
was giad of any break in the dull mo 
hotony, accepted with alacrity. The 
motor was a four cylinder Layton, 
with a vicious back fire and a hoarse, 
wet cough, which would have warned 
ab expert to look after his igniter and 
relieve the of] vent. The auto car was 
rented, and, besides, machinery was a 
detail to be looked after in the garage; 
therefore the driver hiccougbed up Riv- 
erside drive with a charming disregard 
for signs and omens, 

The Englishman talked, and the Tex- 
an listened, thopgh he adroitly kept 
the conversation in a social vein on 
the chance of finding some opening for 
an attack on Irvington, In this he was 
not disappointed. The earl had #e- 
cured letters of introduction to Jacob 
Renwyck,.but on calling at the Broad 
street offices bad found the gentleman, 
absent. He left his letters, together 
with a note of regret, and had prompt- 
ly. received a cordial invitation to join 
a small honse party in the home of 
the Renwycks on the Hudson. He 
had accepted and Intended to go there 
on ‘the following day, where his valet 
would join bim, bringing his luggage \ 
from Washington. 

Richard's heart rose and rejoiced. 
Here was a possible chance to meet 
Miss Renwyck, yet he must proceed 
with caution. 

“Renwyck,” he said thoughtfully. 
“Seems to me I’ve heard that uanie. 
Well off?” 

The earl became so eloquent on that 
subject that his companion's suspicions 
were at once aroused, and more 80 as 
the Englishman's attention was riv- 
eted upon an income rather than bis 
steering gear. 

“Any daughters in the family?” ask- 
ed the Texan carelessly. 

“One. Aw-—quite passable, I under 
stand.” 

Richard agreed with him, but did 
not think it necessary to mention the 
fact.* > 

“Did you ever meet the lady?” 

“No, old chap.” 

“Nor any of the family?’ 

“Never. I am—ab—not so keen, how- 
ever, on Miss Renwyck’s—er—relatives, 
don’t you kaow,!!.diumiledbis lordship 
in his most blase and superior manner. 

The Texan’s white teeth closed with 
an angry snap. He could not bear 
his friend in that pose, but he put a 
curb op his tongue. 

“Look here, Croyland,” he asked as 
indifferently as he could, “do you mean 
to tell me that yoy are going to Ir- 
vington tomorrow with the avowed in- 
tention of making love to a lady you 
have never seen?” 


“Call it prospecting,” laughed ‘the 
Englishman. “It’s a fair game, isn't 
it?” 


“No, it isn't,” snapped the Texan, 
falling into the vernacular of the 
plains. “It’s-a dingy deal witb a cold 
deck. Where does the girl come in?” 

“Coronet,” drawled the noble earl, 
“and not such a bad sort under it, If 
she is satisfied, | am, I'm sure,” 

“Birthright, mess of pottage and a 
pig in a poke,” suggested Richard 
rather warmly. “But what of you? 
Why, great Scott, man, you’ve never 
seen her! She may be humpbacked— 
hideous!” ‘ : 

“My dear old chap,” said the earl, 
with a dry, indulgent smile, “you will 
learn some day that a Bradstreet re- 
port covers a muylititude of freckles. 
By Jove, I've even known ‘it to con- 
done a bump!” 

Here the conversation stopped sad- 
denly. The machine had done the same. 
They were far out on the Westchester 
road in the vicinity of New Rochelle, 
with nothing in sight but a. farmer’s 
truck wagon approaching from an op- 
posite direction, with a big yellow dog 
trotting beside the wheel. 

The earl drawled something about it 
being “most extrawd’n'ry” and began 
to manipulate the various levers, but 
without results. Clearly he was un- 
familiar with the vagaries of this par- 
ticular brand of motor. He descended 
from the car and turned bis engine 
over, being rewarded by a clattering 
roar which caused bim to leap back 
into bis seat again. He released his 
brake and inadyertently threw his 
weight upon the speed controller, The 
machine arose and rejoiced as a strong 
Map going to battle 

As Mr. Richard Williams afterward 
described it, “the thing first bucked 
and then bolted for nowhere in partic- 
ular. It attepded to the yellow dog 
Orst, then ate up the farmer’s wagon, 
turned over on its back ayd kicked up 
its heels, bollering like a calf under the 
branding iron.” 

TLe graphic his‘orian found bimseif 
sailing gracefully over a barbed wire 
fence until he alighted in a soft field, 
where be plowed up considerable 
earth, but sustained no serious injury. 
The Earl of Croyland had fared. worse. 
In bis headlong plunge he bad struck 


4 fence post, wrenching one leg badly } 


and fracturing bis right collar bone. 
The irate farmer arose from the dust 
with a bleeding nose and immediately 
put lu a claim for damages, not only 
for bis wagon and bis valuable dog, 
but for loss of time and the greater 
pertion of his costume. Nothing 
seemed to have happened to his vocab- 
Vlary, it was aoticed. 


NILE’S VALUE TO EGYPT. 


Why It ts Necessary Fer Great Bri- 
‘tain to Hold thé Soudan, 


In his note on the budget for 1009 
Se gary financial adviser to the 
an Government, says: — 
Phe year 1908 has Bry, oe & per- 
iod of economic prosperity for Egypt. 
Nevertheless the economic ‘situation 
is,,in fact, essentially sounder how 
than it has, been for sorne years past: 
The complaints which are heard are 
due in a measure to a comparison of 
the présent situation with times of 
abnormal and morbid commercial 

activity. 

“The portion of the expenditure 
which has incurred the severest criti- 
cism is that which has been devoted 
to the Soudan. The criticism is, how- 
ever, besed on.an incomplete under-’ 
standing of a large political and evo- 
nomic — problem, he. essence of 


Nile. The diminution of this supply, 
particularly in the critical summer 
months, would involve..an incaleul: 
able loss to Egypt. But this: would ‘at 
once result, if the ‘Nile water were di- 
verted, as it very well might be, to. 
the irrigation of the Soudan. It is to 


maintain the supply cero ad ite} 
olds yudan, | 


source that Egy 
Unfortunately, the Soudan is not to) 
be held ,without sacrifice: ‘A. -vast. 
country, ‘almost entirely ‘undeveloped, 
without communication, largélyocou- 
pied by uhruly tribés, needs expt 


axpendis | 


ture on its “administration éonsider- 
ably in excess of its annual. revenue. 
“To remedy’ this situation tworob- 
jects must be puratied,.: 
ment of the country’s ¥ 
intérnal security. For boty these pur- 
poses capital expenditu ‘ne 
sary. The soundness of this po 
been proved by, the growth in eight 
years of the audan e 
£E.187,500 to £E.1,000.000, & 
duction last year of the f 
aay subsidy from £E.253,000 to. 


se 
Heel ed 


MASTERS IN CON 
Pedagegue Caused a Sensation By 
Showing Ignorance of Scholars. 


er great 
English public schools met.in con 
ference, and proceeded to tell each 
other how they believed the’ yenns 
idea should be taught to shoot. le 
headmaster of Birmingham caused 
shiidders: of horror to run down the 
small of all the agogic backs 
telling how he had discovered a “Uni- 
versity scholar’ who actually didn’t 
know that the stars shifted of nights, 
but’ thought they just yed where. 
they had been put to tWinkle. .The 
whole house of heads saw that the on- 
ly thing to do was to applatid wildly, 
which they did. And the Birmingham 
man, thus stimulated, worked himself | 
to the strong language pitch, He said 
that the condition of t university 
scholar could: be characterized only as 
one of “‘crass,.impenetrable; and swin- 
igh _ignorance” — and again all the 
héads roared applause, All bat ‘one. 
A headmaster 0: wi x4 school rose, 
unafraid, and said, .“‘T have never lis- 
tened ta such unmitigated. rubbish !”’. 
Then he showed the great heads gath. 
ered ether in council that, ea 
seve ge of the vilenth sine’ s 
stars was a very. pleasant 1 Mh 
man might still hove a very “fine cul- | 
ture. without knowing anything ‘be- | 
yond the nu rhyme lore that they - 
twinkled, twinkled, and wete -wonder- 
ful. He went, on to explain that all 
our modern science was good, but not 
essential to the dee phemeety ; men 
had lived very well, and thought very. 
highly, for some thousands of years 

out knowing anything at all about 
these mysteries of naturé. In the end, 
ihe masters seemed to be of his opin- 
ion. 


The Force Accounted For. 
“Where's the editor?” ‘ 
*Bunnin’ a race with the sheriff to 
git warm.” 

“And the foreman?” 

“Tryin’ to git the stove red hot witb 
rejected poetry.” 

“Well, where’s the office boy?” 

“Tryin’ to mortgage the paper to buy 
a snow shovel.”—Atlanta Constitution. 


Always Forget. 
“I am in favor of the ‘open door’ 
policy,” said the starch salesman as 
he opened bis samples, , 


“Then, by heck, yeou are like those , 


loafers behind the cannon stove,” 
drawied the old storekeeper. “Every 
one of them leave the door open every 
time they come in.”—Chicago News, 


Never Could Catch ‘Em. 

“Yes.” said Miss Passay. “! discov- 
ered a burglar in our parior last 
night.” 

“My gracious!” 
“Did you faint?” 

“No; | tried to catch him, but”— 

“Ah, your usual luck with men, eb?’ 
~—Philadelphia Press. 


put in Miss Pert. 


F The Objection. 
“Nearly everybody makes mistakes 
at some time or another,” said the phil- 


person, 
“Yes.” answered Miss Cayenne; “you | 


can forgive anybody for making mis- 
takes if he isn't so egotistic as to in- 
sist on your admiring them.”--Wasb- 
ing Star, 


‘forceps well u 


t's prosperity is the water of the |’ 


er AN eae 
pointjs thas, 


| it in Such. perfection. We 


most. 


draw a. 

modern” dentist draw the tooth 
he has-a pa c s for a par- 
fictiiar tooth, and. a cruel bearted and 


When you brace yourself in the 
iron chair and take a tight grip onthe 
arms of it and make up your mind 
you'll try to stand ft and he gets that 
r the gum snd—wait 
a minute; 1 feel. so kind 0° faint! 
Laws! Why didn't I mind my mother 
when shé told’ me hot to crack hick- 
ory nuts with my teeth? Well, any- 
way, you know he'll get the tovth out 
without doing more than take the 
whole top of your head off, and that 
ly in a figurative sense. 

Wotle Doc had one implement that 
did for every tooth; big and : little 
front and back. It wagn't a forceps: 
it Was & turnkey. “The. réal old folks 
know shat that is and will say so 
ay the cold chil ah se over them. 
But_you’ye never seen one, an@ many 
a man that, you would ‘call olf has 
never seen one. It's something like a 
canthook. .The loosely. riveted piece 
that curves slips over the tooth and 
catches on the insifle; the solid cam 
bears on the ottside gum; the opepator 
turns the Handle. Let's not! talk about 
it. Something has got to give. Maybe 
the pest yh come out; maybe it will 

the jaw will frac: 

ire dentine om 

©, opérator twista the 

tiandle something lias got to give, and 

that’s, all. there is “about it—Kugene 
Wood tn Saécess Magazine. 
Neat oy ESN 


- 


2 RGENTLE REPROACH: 
rei 


‘Telling Retort of the Lamblike, Violet 
iy Eyed Pid 


{> Whereis a certain young woman who' 
ip eiful,. with that childish, wistful, 


innocent, looking,” violet eyed beauty 


é ually, as- 
sociate it with a lamblike, “appealing 
iientality that* permits itself "to be rid- 
den upon+as soon expect a wood violet 
to turm and rend you. s 

A short time. ago she was’ asked to 
a. woman'g~ftuncheon’ and herself 
up occasion in a y that 
t of,her efforts a thing 
not easily.forgotten, She arrived look- 
ing 59: lov 
among, the guests for a few moments 
after Het entry into the room, Perhaps 
slie felt the silence. At all events, she 
turned to the woman standing nearest 
her anf said in a childish voice, with 
ever such a little lisp and pretty south 
ern rk ; 

“How well yo’ are lookin’ today!” 

It was-a well meant civility’ from a 
young woman to an ‘older one, who 
seemingly was unable to uccept it as 
such 2nd put up her forgnette, sweep- 
ing, the speaker from top to 'toe. What 
she saw was enough to disconcert a 
younger and prettier woman than her- 
self, but even soore finds it difficult 
to justify her next move, — 

“Wish 1 conld say the’ same for 
you,” She returned, closing ber lorguette 
with a snap. 

One or \two, of the guests were 
friends of the pretty woman and al- 
breathing «in. order. not 
to miss what they felt sure would 
come—and it came... The pretty one 
raised ber eyebrows slightly, theo 
said, with an air of gentle reproach: 

“Why don't yo’ lie like a lady, like 
I do?"—Reboboth Sunday Herald. 


What tle Needed.” 

A sovereign would tempt. many men, 
and when Plimkins, making a few pur- 
chases at the stores, saw one lying on 
the floor just by the eounter he quiv- 
ered with excitement. 

Glancing around to reassure bimeelf 
that none was looking, he quite acct- 
dentally @ropped ove of his kid gloves 
neatly on the coin an@ then dived. He 
got the glove all right, but still the sov- 
ereign remained. } 

A shopwalker approached bim. 

“Good morning, sir,” said the man, 
rabbing his hands. together in the ap- 
proved style, “and may | show you a 
bottle of r celebrated liquid glue, 
which gticks”— 

—London Mail. 


The Cellar Stairs. 

A man who ence bad a bad-fall when 
going down bis cellar stairs now has 
@ broad strip of white painted en the 
floor at the end of the last step, This 
is easily seen, even if the cellar be 
dark, and many a nasty accident is 
avoided. 


plece of white ollcleth cap be tacked 
to the floor at the foot of the stairs: 
See that the tacking 48 securely done 
or a worse fall may follow than from 
a oiisgauged step.—Philadelphia Presa; 

oo f 


Dodged. - 
“I got my wife through advertising,” 
“Tage you'll admit that advertising 


pays 

“I'l admit that it brings ye 
Was the cautions reply. — 
Courter-J ournal, 


No man can be provident of his time 
who {is not prodent in the choice of 
company.—Jeremy Taylor, ~ 


ely that there. was little said 


If the bouse ls rented and » 
you do not like to paint the boards a_ 


e 
3 


ry ° . n . af i, 
ee carer pr Venice tell 
¢ of the h cen- 
poe sinister dooce, arFivae io the ett. 


i 
ii 
tj 
Hf 


her. Though far temoved from him in 
station, his blind passion took no count 
of this fact, and he determined to sue 
for ber hand... 

There proved to be, however, a more 
insuperable. obstacle»to his suit. The 
girl was already bettothed, to another, 
& young nobleman of almost equal 
tank and fortune. The knowledge did 
not deter Tebaldo, who boldly present- 
‘ed himself before the girl's parents in 
the capacity of a suitor for her hand. 
As. might have been expected, he met 
with a curt and unceremonious rebuff. 

. The repulse rankled in‘his mind, En- 
Faged beyond measure, he shut himself 
up in his own house and there secretly 
studied" a means of revenge. Pro- 
'foundly skilled in the mechanical arts, 
he allowed himself no rest until he had 
invented a most formidable abd death 
dealing Weapon, This*waaga large key, 
the handle of which was so constrict- 
ed that t¢ could. be. turned at. will. 
When it was thus ares a sectet 
spring ged, which, on. being’ 
pressed, ladhched from the key head’ a 
fine needle or lancet. ~The latter was 
‘of such delicate construction that it 
penetrated the body of ‘the victim and 
buriéd itself deep in the fesh without 
Jeaving any external trace. ¢ 

The marriage of the betrothed cou 
ple was fixed to take /p' in. the prin- 
cipal churéh jin Venice >on a certain 
day... Before thé. ceremony. Tebaldo, 
cunningly disguised, stationed himself 
at the chureh dour armed» with his. dia- 


‘polical. weapon... As ‘the bridegroont 


was ‘about, -to enter the building ‘the 
concealed watcher pressed the spring 


| and gent the deadly steel lancet into 


the breast of bis victim. The young 
roblemat; had no,,euspicion ‘of injury 
at the moment; In the midst of the 
ceremony, however, he was seized 
with a sharp spasm of pain and sank 
fainting on the steps of the altar. He 
‘was hurriedly conveyed to. his: home, 
where the, leading Venice physicians 
were summoned to Attend him. Ip 
spite, of their unremitting efforts he 
sank and died, nor\were they able to 
discover the nature of the mysterious 
and fatal seizure. : 
{With the removal of his rival, Te- 
balddé once more presented himself :be- 
fore the girl's parents and renewed 
request for bef band... Their refusal to 
listen to him sealed their doom, In 
what manner b* accomplished it is not 
‘known, but within a few days both 
had been done to death in the 
den and mysterious fashion. 
The exalted rank of the victims cre- 
nto“ 9 profound sensation, and when, 
ul Gamination of the bodies. a fine 
stee! instrument was found’ in the 
flesh terror became universal, ‘The cit- 
izehs feared for their lives. ‘The ut- 
most: vigilance ‘was exercised on at 


part of the authorities, but as yet no’ 


suspicion fell upon Tebaldo. 

The bereaved. girl retired to a -con- 
vent, where she passed'the firat mothe 
of mourning in sorrowful seclusion. 
Tebaldo, however, sought .her out, in 
her retreat and begged to speak to ber 
through the grating. ‘ : 

His dark, evil face had always been 
displeasing to her, but since the deattr 
of ber betrothed and parents {t had be- 
come repulsive, When, therefore./’ 
the course of the interview he p 
her to fy with him he met with an in- 
stant and indignant refusal. Her scoru 
stung him to the quick; Beside bim- 
self with rage, be brought his ly 
weapon onc@ more into play and suc- 
eeeded in wounding the girl through 
the grating, the obscurity of the place 
preventing bis action from ‘being ot¥ 
served. 

On her return-to ber room the :girt 
felt.a sharp paio in her breast, Exami- 
nation of the spot showed that it was 
dotted with a single drop of blood. 
Physicians were hastily summoned. 
Taught by past experience, they wast- 
ed no time in valy conjecture, but cut 
into the flesh and extracted the slen- 
der steel, thus saving the girl's life. 

The dastardly attempt occasioned « 
public outcry, The visit of Tebaldo to 
the cofivent became known and caused 
suspicion to turn upon him, The er- 


Podge of the law descertied suddenly 
him, bis houge was searclied, an? 
there the abominable invention was 


Giscovered. Swift justice 
and he ended bis days upon the 
fold, : k a 


sena! at Venice—Chambers’ Journal 


a 


‘ 
The key to stiltpteserved im the ‘ar- rs * 
¥ 


Lovers! Quarrel, == * 
Nell—A lovers’ quarrel always re- 
‘minds me of a crazy quilt’ Belle— 
How's that? Nell—Always patched 
up. BERS vod 
, 4 ee _£ 
Fortupe ts ever seen accompanying 
. tedastey.—Goldsmith. 5 Raat. 


same: 


> — 


en. Ses eee ee Te 


A TORE YN AB iy A RG | PR RRNREBII RO 


‘ N.U,, National Drug & Chem 
©o., Toronto, 42a 


‘wet Growing: 
Mts, Oak Parks teuding)=—It states 
heres that. Nero had two hundred 


cooks, nating 

Mr. Oak *Parks—Well;. don’t worry, 
Lucy, we'll hever cafth up with his 
tecord. We've only caught one so Jar, 
and eouldn’t’ keep - her.—Chicugo 
“News. : 


\ccplehedpthihicithetpictnglen. 
: State of Ohio, City of Toledo, 
? Lueas County. 
Frank. 4d. .Cheney makes oath that 
he is senior partner of the firm of F 
J. Cheney and Co., doing business in 
the City of. Toledo, County and State 
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay 
the. sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL- 
LARS fot each and every. case of Oa- 
tarrh. that cannot be cured by the use 
of Hall’s Catarrh Oure. - 
' PRANK J. CHENEY. 
Sworn to ‘before me and subscribed 
in-my presence, this 6th' day of De- 
_.cember, A.D. 1886, 
A.. W. GLEASON, 
* .(Beal.) Notary Public 
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is' taken inter- 
nally; and acts directly on the blood 
and mucous. surfaces of the system. 
Send for testimonials free. 
F. J, Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. 


a 


} 
| Bold by. all Druggists, Tbe... - 
Take Yall’s Family Pills for con- 
etipation. Ws 
) Westerner—Our mining district has 
_® company that holds the. world’s 
»° record for production, 
Easterner—Indeed! Gold or cvop- 
+} per? ae 
re Westérher — Neither. Shares» of 
‘ Récoghized ‘as the Jeading specific 
‘ for the destruction of worms, Mother 
} Graves’ Worm Exterminator has prov- 


eda ‘boon to'sufferi 
where. It seldom fails. 


| children.every- 
| Photographs will.soon be taken. at 
! 


1-6,000th of .a. second, said Mr. Balt 

- at the Royal Photographic societ’ 
A shutter is to be put on the market 
with a maximum speed of 1-2,000th of 
a second. / 


* Too Bad 
Mr. Kallow—Yaas, I made up my 
mind I would never marry until I had 
found the right girl—and you’re that 
irl. 
Miss Bright—How provoking, 
you’ré the wrong. man. 


©. 


icr 


Bhe—Is it true that Miss Blank is 
| going to marry the prince?” 
He—“‘Er—well, they have issued a 
} denial of the story which contradicted 

‘the report as to thé falsity of the 
“| ~ rumor that the account was untrue.-- 
Brooklyn Life. * 


is 
| vicinityof the Mangrol 


om 


Rie: 5 % hea) 
| ’ ‘ , 7 
r be . ns 
oe de akin 
Es 
s+ 


sodteks tact of Jolgy B 
ae area tie 
pn gt en Sombisation in the 


an 
na- 


he 
he 


in.the Belfast Academi- 
cal Institution, At the age of .15 he 
was apprenticed to the firm of Har- 
land and -Wolff, which even then was 
coming “into prominenté,.” Lord Pir- 
rie became a:partner in the firm and 
» fo be head of the great 


for himself’ and -his. ships, he has 
been the preatest..benefactor that Bel: 
fast and Ulater: ever had. The sub- 
utb of Ballymacarrett, which thirty 
thirty years ago had a population of 
only & few thousands, housed most 
wretchedly amid i itary’ surround. 
ings; ‘Can now c nearly 100,000, 
and no small part of. that: increase 
is due to the employment gives by 
Messrs. Harland and Wolff. Th 
wages paid by the firm amount to 
about £20,000 weekly, and frem pres- 
ent indications éven that sum will 
soon be exceeded. -On an average 
10,000 ‘hands are employed in ‘the 
works, and the tmumber sometimes 
risés to 12,000. It is needless td. say 
that the same enterprise . which 
marks his shipbuilding.is displayed 
in: the engineering works which have 
been’ added, and which are models 
in managefnent and equipment, and 
in the readiness with which they can 
be utilized for all purposes and all 
emergencies. In addition to their 
contracts for the mercantile’ marine 
in all parts of the world, Lord Pirrie’s 
firm have done extensive engineering 
work forsthe navy. 

Of late years Lord Pirrie has -‘differ- 
ed in politics from the majority, of 


| his fellow-citizens,, but this cireum- 


stance has not altered their apprecia- 
tion of bis services. He owes nota 
little of -his social success to Lady 
Pitrie, whom he married in 1879. 
During’* the two years in which he 
was. Lord Mayor of Belfast~years 
which weré characterized by. ifi- 


cent. hospitality—she discharged the. 


ba of. her -position.in a manner 
which won the reapect of all the citi- 
zens. It was-dvring his’ Lord Mayor- 
alty that the Victoria Hospital was 
established and erdowed in Belfast, 
and the success of the scheme was iff 


| great measure owing to the energy, 
philanthropy. and popularity of Lady. 


Pirrie. » Lord ie was also high 
sheriff ef Down for one year, and 
high sheriff of Antrim for another, .so 
that;not’only the city of Belfest, but 
the ‘two counties in which it is situ- 
ated. did him honor. Belfast further 
testified its admiration of his charac- 
ter by making him its first honorary 
freeman. | 


Delane’s Fastidious Taste. 

A characteristic of the famous edi- 
tor of The London Times was the ex- 
traordinary thoroughness of*his edi- 
torial revision. He watched with the 
utmost; care not merely the’ substance 
and-the general sepa of an/arti- 
cle, but every detait of expression. He 
could correct commas at 3.30 a.m 
and would write one of his brilliant 
notes at that hour to warn a writer 
against an incorrect expression. I re- 
member his once writing to me at that 
hour to protest against my using the 
word “action” to descri an ‘act. 
“Action,’”’ he said, “is properly used 
only of a military action or an action 
at law.” I thin 
the authority. of the Scriptural expres- 
sion: ‘The Lord ik a of knowl 
edge, and by Him actions are weigh- 
ed”; but the vigilance which could 
insigt ‘on such a point in the heat and 
haste of editing illustrates the inde- 
fatiable éonscientiousness of his work. 
~The Dean of Canterbury in The 
OCornbill. * 


t Human Salamander. 

There has been much excitement 
at Mangrol, in Kathiwar, where a 
Mohammedan Punjabi has walked 
through a burning pit and had coals 
at. white heat thrown on his head 
without being hurt, apparently. The 
Punjabi gave his exhibition on the 
grounds of the Sheik Sahib’s palace. 


| A. ie wag dug under his direction 
an wi 


300 pounds of fire- 


; wood. When. the whole thing was 


ablaze the heat was éo great that it 
drove back bystanders, but the 
“saint” walked down into the pit and 
walked through it several times, He 
conducted two of the Bheik Sahib’s 


y 
rae burns or other injuries, It 


ed that the villagers in the 
will shortly 
the Punjabi. 


he was wrong, on, 


pain in the joints, 


bhi cathiea shades tadinlaes dhl denial 
= - 


ee ERP 


This “4 


force. 
“As s00n as you feel any deep-avated 
1 abe be ot 

» place a supply 
k on the fingers, or on the 
palm of the hand) and rab it well in: 
to thé part affected. The penetrating 
power of this “embrocation-balm”’ is 
exceedingly great, and once having 
reached the seat of the pain it re 
moves it speedily. It also ends the 
stiffness which’is so unpleasant. 
Frequent rubbings of the afflicted 
parts with Zam-Bik will not ‘only 
drive out all pain, reduce swelling, 
etc., but will strengthen skin» and 
tissues and enable them to resist cold 
and damp. The following case will 
show how Zam-Buk brings ease to 
those tortured by rheumatism. 

Mr. P. G. Wells, of 338 Ogden street, 
Fort William, Ont., says:—‘‘Following 
my: duties in attending. to passenger 
trains I often get wet through with 
rain and steam (the latter in winter). 
This with hours of duty in icehouses 
in summer was no doubt the cause of 
my contracting rheumatism in both 
knees, left arm-and shoulder. This 
got so bad that I could no longer 
work, and was laid off on three dif- 
ferent occasions for several weeks, 
during which I was under the treat- 
ment of my- doctor...I seemed to get 
little if any better, no matter what I 


tried, and this was my state when 
Zam-Buk was récommended to me. I 


e| laid in a supply, and to my great jov 


it began to cure me. I rubbed it well 
in every night, and when a few boxes 
had been used, found I was free again 
trom the pain and stiffness of rhew- 
1oatism. I have-had no more trouble 
from the disease and unhesitatingly 
recommend Zam-Buk to all who suffer 
from rheumatism, muscular _ stiff. 


ness, etc.”’ 


Zam-Buk is also a sure cure for ec- 
zema, ring-worm, ulcers, abscesses 
piles, bad leg, suppurating wounds, 
cuts, burns, bruises, chapped hands, 
cold cracks, and all skin injuries and 
diseases. All druggists and’ stores 
sell at 50c. per box, or post free from 
Zam-Buk Co., Toronto, upon receipt 
of price. - 


He Embraced It 
Freshman—“When I get interested 
in a’subject, I don’t stop, till I have 
embraced it thoroughly.” 
College Widow—‘‘How perfectly de- 
lightful! Do you consider that I 
am an interesting subject’?’—Judge. 


“A Grand Medicine’”’ is the encom- 
ium oftem, passed on Bickle’s. Anti- 
Consumptive Syrup, and when the re- 
sults from its use are considered, as 
borne out by many persons who have 
employed it in stopping coughs and 
eradicating colds, it is more . than 
grand. Kept in the house, it is alWays 
at hand-and it has no equal as a 
ready remedy. If you have not tried 
it, do +o at: once, 


On seeing a child of three run overt 
at Malaga by a tramcar the parents 
and neighbors fired shots and threw 
stones at the car. ‘They then ‘‘z- 
molished it, filled it with straw, «wud 
set it on fire. 


Repeat it:—" Shiloh’s Cure will al- 
‘Ways cure my coughs and colds.’’ 


Editor—Have you. ever done 
work on a newspaper? 

Applicant for Position—Yes, sir; 
for nearly six months I contributed to 
a column in’our home paper under 
en of “For the Uplift of Man- 

n od 

Editor—Go to the office of the build- 


any 


ing on the top floor and see if they | J 


want an elevator, man,—Chicago Tri- 
une. 


. Wanted to Warn Him. 

Sir Algernon West tells this story ta 
his “Recollections:” One day the late 

George Campbell, who bad a very 
strident, lond, rasping voice. called on 
Sir Algernon, whé was then secretary 
to Mr. Gladstone, to-talk over the land 
question. 

After. he had been in conversation 
about three minutes the office keeper 
appeared, .bearing the card of an M. P, 
who, he paid, was very anxious to see 
Bir Algernon, The latter snid he was 
sorry ‘to be engaged. In another min- 
tte he appeared with the card of a 
well known peer who was most de- 
efrous to have a word with him. Again 
the latter said he was too trisy to see 
tim just then, In another minute the 
man again came in with a buge card 
saying the lord mayor and sheriffs of 
London wanted to speak to Sir, Alger- 
non West very urgently in the next 
room, 

Bir Algernon apologized to Sir George 
and went out to such great dignitaries, 
When he got out of the room the office 
keeper startied him by saying, “There 
ain't nobody bere, sir, but I was afraid 
& madman haG been shown in to you 
by mistake, and I wanted to warn you, 
at» 


Scottish Marriage Custom. 


Many bed m. customs stilt 
survive In many old English and 
y notable tradi. 

mn of this sort still kept green by 
ed ye vt Atholl and their heirs 
the bride across the threshold. of 


\ % 


GRAVEL EASILY AND NATURAL. 
LY CURED BY DODD'S KID. 
; NEY PILLS 


Joseph Pelrine who Suffered the Tor. 
tureq of this Terriblé Complaint for 


Nine Months, tells how the old Re. | that 


liable Kidney Remedy Cured Him. 

‘Port Felix East, Guysboro. Oo) N. 
8. (Special).—That,you need no. long- 
er fear the knife if troubled with gra 
vel or other urinary troybles is the 
glad news that Joseph Pelrine, a 
well-known young fisherman here is 
telling his friends. 

“T suffered intense pain from gravel 
and other urinary troubles for nine 
months,” Mri Pelrine says. “But 
seven boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills 
cured me completely. I heartily re- 
commend Dodd’s Kidney Pills to any- 
one who is suffering from gravel or 
urinary troubles.” 

Dodd’s Kidney Pilla cure gravel by 
curing the kidneys. The-urinary or- 
gans are entirely dependent on the 
kidneys. If the kidneys are not in 
good wofking order they cannot filter 
out the uric acid and it combines with 
other products of the body and causes 
gravel. Healthy kidneys dissolve the 
stones and they pass off in the urine 
That’s why Dodd’s Kidney Pills al- 
ways cure gravel. 
—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_——_—_—X————Xs_—— 


No Wireless Politics 
“Don’t you suppose, senator, chat 
eventually all kinds of machinery will 
be run by a wireless system?”’ 
“‘No, my boy; we never could run a 
political machine without wires.’’"— 
Exchange. 


A WINDSOR LADY’S APPEAL 


To All Women: I will send free, 
with full instructions, my home treat- 
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Another eign of spring—the crows 
are perched in the bare and leafless 
treetops of the rural regions, waiting 
for the festive farmer to start plant- 
ing corn. 


Hope for the Chronic Dyspeptic.— 
Through lack of consideration of the 
body’s needs many persons allow dis- 
ostare of the festive snpnteiee to 
endure u ex... become chronic, 
filling ‘deve Aad nights oi Somer 
ing. To these a course of Parmelee’s 
Vegetable Pills is recommended as a 
sure and speedy way to regain health. 
These pills are specially compounded 
to combat dyspepsia and the many ills 
that follow in its train, and they are 
successful always. 


The vistors in the historical mu- 
seum gazed curiously at ai small 
feather pillow which nestled in @ glass 
ease. 

“T don’t see anything unusual about 
that pillow,’’ remarked one of the 
visitors, turning to the guide. 

“Tt’s a very valuable pillow,’’ re- 
plied the guide. ‘‘That is Washing- 
ton’s original headquarters.’’—Lippin- 
cott’s. 


“That ‘pretty girl wants a plase 
in your office. Can't we give her a 
ob?” ' 

“What can she do?” 

“Well, she earned a prize in botanv, 
and she can make fine welsh rabbit 
and Battenberg _lace.”’—Clevelund 
Le ader. 


How isa Cold 
To be Cured 


When it has reached the chest, is 
developing into bronchitis and 
threatens to become pneumonia. 


There's no time fer delay or experl- 
menting—It’s time to use Dr. Chase's 
Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine. 


It seems too bad that there is sint 
more pain and suffering associated 
with:a cold, for then there would Le 
less tendency to neglect treatment. 

Bo gradually and stealthily does a 
cold is from ite simpler form of a 
cold in the head into inflammation of 
he bronchial tubes and then on to 
he lungs that many do not -ealize 
thetr condition until pneumonia is 
upon them. ; 

Ordinarily, of course, the Go]d is 
thrown off, but with the system run 
down and weakened there is every 
reason to expect that a cold will end 
seriously. 

Why should not every cold be taken 
seriously and Dr. Chase’s Syrup of 
Linseed and Turpentine used before a 
severe illness is upon you. 

There are many reasons why y.u 
should use Dr. Chase’s Syrup of Lin- 
seed and Turpentine. It is more thor- 
ough and far-reaching in its effects 
on the system than uny mere cough 
medicine can ibly be. It keeps 
the cough loose and open, it aids ex- 
postoreyyen and allays the inflamma. 

ion. 

- It does more than this. It cures the 
cold as well as the cough. It ig direct, 
positive and almost specific in action 

Mrs. Geo. Good, Tichborne, Adding- 
fon Co., Ont., writes: “It is with 
re that I certify to the wonder- 

ry ase’s Byrup of 
tine as a cure for 


‘had to eke out his means by work 


ornament and pride of 
Scots. Few Edinburgh Uni- 
students had a more distin- 
career, in apite of the fact 
a t, Shaw had to support him- 
self in his etudent days, and even 
while reading for the Scots Bar he 


in a lawyer's office. Even in those 
days, however, it was a familiar re- 
mark amongst his fribnds that ‘Tom 
would go far,”” and he started by 
acquiring a good practice and being 
appotriea Junior Advocate Depute, 
an office, by the way, whieh for some 
reason is flippantly called “Boots.” 
Eight years later—in 1894—he was 
Solicitor-General for Scotland, and 
four years ago attained his present 
eminent position, The fact that Mr. 
Shaw likes nothing better, during his 
apare time, than to stand beside a 
stream with rod and line, has led to 
the joke that his finest catch was the 
£2,000,000 which he hooked from Mr. 
Carnegie for the Scottish Universities 
while on one of his fishing holidays. | 


The Wavs of Women. 
Oh, women’s ways are strange, ‘tis 
true, 
And wooing is a wondrous thing! 
They lose a man when they pursue , 
And win him by surtendering! 


Cuttivating the Power of Observation. 

“iow many seed compartments -p 
there is an apple?” he asked. No one 
answered. “And yet,” continued the | 
school inspector, “all of you eat many 
an apple in the course of a year and | 
see the fruit every day probably. You 
must learn to notice the little things in | 
nature.” ‘ 

The talk of the inspector impressed 
the children, and at recess the teacher 


overheard them discussing it. A little 
girl, getting her companions around 
her, gravely said: 

“Now, children, just suppose “i am 
Mr. Robinson. You've got to know 
more about common things. If you 
don’t, you'll all grow up to be fools. 
Now, tell me, Maggie,” she continued, 
looking sternly at a playmate, “how 
many feathers are there on a hen?’— 
Woman's Home Companion. 


Repeat 
it: —“Shiloh’s Cure will always 
cure my coughs and colds,” | 


Crime 

The pale, proud girl turns to the 
big, heavy-browed man, who is gaz- 
ing at her so intently. He has a 
glittering knife in his hand. 

“Have you no heart?’”’ she asked in 
low, even tones. 

No,” he telle her. e 

“Then give me twopennyworth of 
liver.” ~ 

Rapidly ‘cutting “off the desired 
amount, the butcher wraps it up ‘ir 
her, gives her the change, and turns 
to wait on the next customer. 


Minard’s Liniment for sale everywhere 


Didn’t Make a Sale 


Of course the shoe clerk was new to 
the business or he never would huve 
made such a break. 7 

“What you need, madam,” he said, 

“is a number five instead of a num- 
ber three.” 
. “Number five!’ echoed the fair cus- 
tomer, indignantly. ‘You must be 
thinking of the size of your hat, young 
man. 


A Remedy for Earache.—To have 
the earache is to endure torture. The 
ear is a delicate organ and few care 
to deal with it, considering it work 
for a doctor. Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric 
Oil offers a simple remedy. A few 
drops upon a piece of lint or medicat- 
ed cotton and placed in the ear will 
work wonders in relieving pain. ; 


Let Maxim Take Heed 


If Maxim isn’t quite abtuse 

A “silencer” for household use 

He’ll quickly make and fix the cost 

So low it will not prove a frost. 

Then fathers, yes, and husbands, too, 

His name with gratitude will view; 

And those who've walked with teeth- 
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Will sing his praise with cheerful 
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‘ARE SICKLY BABIES 


When babies are restless, sleepless 
and cross it is the surest possible 
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babies sleep soundly and wake up 
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due to some ailment of the stomach 
or bowels, or cutting teeth. A few 
doses of Buby’s Own Tablets will put 
the little one right, and give it sound, 
natural sleep. Mrs. Jos. Goneil, St 
Evariste, Que., says: “I have found 
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cine for constipation and stomach 
troubles. I give them to my little girl 
and they keep her lively and well.” 
Bold by medicine dealers or by mail 
at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Wil- 
liams’ Medicine Co., Brockville, Out. 


An aeroplane experimenter was 
talking the other day to Thomas A 
Edison about the failures and disap- 
pointments of his experiments. 

“But,” said the man with a bright, 
resolute smile, ‘I still have faith— 
yes, faith enough to move mount- 
ains.”’ , 

“It’s a pity you haven’t enough,” 
said Mr. Edison, “to move your uero- 
plane.”—Washingtou Star. 


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A phenomenon of the sky, which 
in olden days was thought of «vil 
omen, was seen the other day in 
Stockholm. A sphere of the suns 
size as the sun appeared in tha 
heavens to the west of the real sun, 
and shone with all the colors of the 
rainbow. 


Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, ete. 


The cheapest thing to give is a kind 
word, and it is often worth more 
than gold. 


Rivers was explaining the opera- 
tion of the new noiseless gun, as he 
understood it. 

“It’s like this,” he said. “There’sa 
corrugated compartment called the 
‘silencer,’ and the ‘pall’ of the gases 
in trying t. escane not only prevents 
all noise, but eliminates the recoil 
and the gun doesn’t kick.’”’ 

“There's nothing strange in that,” 
said Brooks. “If I had a pull I 


wouldn’t kick either.” 


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ie sweating of ‘the: ‘contract fo we 
political purposes. ia 

These illustrations serve to show} 
how the Treasury is looted. : 


The Great Naval Crisis. 

“The time has atrived when ev- 
ery member of the British family 
shall aid io dissipating any doubts 
as to Great. Britain’s title to be 
mistress of the seas, On the val- 
idity of that title the whole struc- 
ture of the Empire is founded.” — 
Toronto Globe, 


The first intimation that all was 


“Britain's ‘capacity for building 
hulls was considerably in excers ot 
Germaey’s} we were superior, in 
fegard to the manufacture of guns; 
the doubtfyl point was as.16, con- 
straction of gun mountings: 

There were two extremes which 
would produce a conflict between 
Britain and Germany: ~ One) was 
an attempt of our part to isolate 


. oor Sap ine te Se 


abs den watt: inched 


To what other we 
newspaper anywhere in Canada, 
whole hearted and genérous | 
been avcorded as may he found in the 
following examples of what ie id 
by press and people all over thé Domin- 
ion? 

The “Witness” is a oowepanet al: which 
Canadians are justly proud, It publishes 
all the news fn the most straightforward 
way and ite readers are kept well in- 
formed. Moreover its readers dre leaders 
in their reepective communities, the 
“Witness”. appealing stronyly to’ thé 
people of character every where, 


te.  SOHOOLEY, Pabtixner. 


Tuunspiy, May 6, 1900. 


Looting the Treasury, 

The methods of looting a gov- 
erhimedt treasury ate many. Mr. 
Foster raised a row a few days 
nyo by a’spetch in reference to 
the taking of money from the 
Public Treasury by a circuitous 
routé for purty purposes. No one 
denied» his assertions. All the 
premier said was that he dots not 
take public money for himself, and 
and that. personally, he does not 
touch it for party use. The gov- 
however, has. a large 
political fund’ upon which it draws, 
Where does the money come 
from? . Let us see. Charles Pat- 
ton, of Ottawa, wished to supply 
tire extinguishers to the .govern- 
ment. Before the order was giv- 
en him he had to sign the follow- 
ing contract: 


Germany, and the other was the 
attempt by ay great continental 
power to dominate the. policy. of 
Between the two 
extremes there was a widg space 
in which the two nations could 
walk in friendship. 


The followidg statements of fact’ are 
worthy the consideration of anyone of 
our readers, 

“The ‘Witness’ exerts a most beneficial 
influence in the homes ahd hearts of our 
people.”—The Late Archbishop Bond, 
Primate of all Canada, 

“The ‘Witness’ has manifested in an 
eminent degree the qualities of courage 
and sincerity,”—R. L. Borden, Leader of 
the Conservative party, 


“The Montreal ‘Witness’ is never in- 
fluenced by mere party feelings.” —Chat- 
ham Commercial. ° 

“The Montreal ‘Witness’ nuosbers 
among its.clientele the most independent 
and thoughtful newspaper readers in 
Canada."— fd monton Bulletin, 

“The Montreal ‘Witness’ stands for 
purity and honesty in government,” — 
The Hamilton Spectator. 

“The Montréal ‘Witness’ is a newspa- 
per which is bold‘enough te be honest, 
and honest enough to be bold.’’—-Sarnia 
(Ont.) Observer. 

“The Montreal ‘Witness’ was never 
better or more useful than it is today.” 
—Dominion Presbyterian. 

“The ‘Witness’ is one of the best pa- 
pers published,”--Bowmanville States- 
man. 

“The ‘Witness’ never fails to command 
respect for its fairness and impartiality.” 
—BSarnia Observer. 

“The ‘Witness’ 1s the most impartial 
and independent newspaper in Canada.” 
—Charlotte, P. EB. I. District. 

“The Montreal ‘Witness’ does ieee ig 
amall.”—Picton Gazette. 

“The Montreal ‘Witness’ is -by far the 
most influential newspaper in Canada.” 
--The Herald, Comber, Ont. 

“The ‘Witness’ is no doubt the best 
nieve gh in Canada, "Northern ad: 
-welwe,— —-- 

“The ‘Witness’ deserves the ‘eiall words 
that have been said of it.”—Christian 
Guardian. 


: 5 the continent. 
not well with the British navy was 


gained from th® speech of Mr. 
McKinna, first Lord of Admiral- 
ty, in‘ his statement on the naval 


Our naval expenditure must be 


estimates, He gravely announced 


that Germany had accelerated her a peee oo Set neny sy eee 
shipbuilding for this year; that the 
1908-9 program would be com. 
pleted in 1910 instead of ror1; and 


that the collection of materials, 


Germany’s was not dependent up- 
on ours, because it was essential 
ernment, we should not fall into a position 
Germany had “io- 
formed him that she would hot 


of inferiority. 


guns, etc. for four more ships had 
boa ae accelerate her naval program, and 

en Begun for Ene 1909-10 Pro-| vould not have 13 dreadnaughts 
gram. . Such a momentous state- 


re h _ until the end of 1912. 
Ment, coming from the minister aoe 
? 8 When the division was taken a 
most concerned, created nu small . 
straight party vote gave the gov- 


consternation. Public meetings 


ernment a big majority. For 135. 
against 353, government majority 


218. 


; . . were held in the city of London 
“For and in consideration of $1 - 


ithe uodersigned binds himself to 
‘pay to C. S. Cameron the sum of 

’ $2,000 in the following manner: 
$1,000 on receipt of an order from 
the Department of Marine and 
Fisheries for 500 of my Star Glass 
lined Chemical Fire Extinguishers 
and a further $1,000 three months 
after date of receipt’of such order, 
and pro rata thereof for any or- 
der.” . 


After this contract had been 
signed Mr. Patton yot his order. 
He had to pay $2,400 out of the 
amount that was collected by him 
from the government. 

Charles Strubbe, of Montreal, 
was yiven an order for $2,300 
worth of files. His charge for 
the files was $4,786, but of this 
sum.he had to surrender $2,286 
before Jeaving Ottawa. ° Here are 
two transactions from which $4,- 
689 was collected. 

A wholesale stationer in Toron- 
to received a small order for en- 
velopes. and supplied the goods. 
W hen it presented its bill a politi. 
cal worker proposed that the sum 
of $70 be added to the account, 
that the firm collect the money, 
and that the money be paid over 
to the politician at Ottawa. This 
“rake-oft” was not carried through 


and elsewhere rating the govern- 
ment for their lackadasical hand- 


Food for Thought. 


“World Wide” is a publication ‘that 
will not interest the ignorant or the peo- 
ple who do not want to thiok, but those 
who wish to keep ir touch with great 
thinkers of the time in Great Britain and 
the United States will find it both ‘in- 
valuable and extremely entertaining. 
“World Wide” is unique. It is the only 
Canadian paper of ite kind and the. only 
paper of its kind in the world, to our 
knowledge, that gives such a wealth of 
strong and suggestive writing on, every 
subject for so small a subscription. price. 

The peculiar mission of ‘World Wide” 
seems to be that of turning the full tide 

{ British and -frmerienn thoughts into s 
Canadian channel at a price which puts 
it within. the reach. ef everyone, “World 
Wide” nas vo axe ‘to grind and is free 
alike frum partisanships and faddishness. 
Phe following opinions may be taken as 
representing the opinion of all ‘World 
Wide” readers who are wont to speak 
most highly about their favorite review, 


“World Wide’ is a very interesting and 
instructive paper, and its selections have 
been made with excellent judgmen..”— 
H. J.Cundell, Charlottetown, P. E. I. 


“I have found ‘World Wide’ both in- 
teresting and instructive, the articles 
avd cartoons judiciously selected.” — 
Judge C. O. Ermatinger, Judge Cham- 
bers, 8t. Thomas, Ont. 


“IT have taken ‘World Wide’ ever since 
its publication, and I consider it Bot on 
ly the best eclectic at the price, but the 
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It is a great boon to a busy man,—Rev. 
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“*World Wide’ is invaluable to. busi- 
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events the world over.”—Mr. H. H. Loose. 
more, Standard Bank, Parkhill, 

“I have taken ‘World Wide” for six 
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forward with pleasure to its weekly arri- 
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—W. C. B. Manson, Grimsby, Ont. 

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“World Wide” is issued every week at 
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the world, by Jobo Dougall & Son, Wit- 
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Messrs. Jaques Bros., of Lam- 
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whereby in a few months'and Breeders, Stallions for sale. 


ling of the first line of defence. 
The Conservative parfy were not 
slow to show the gravity of the 


situation and leave was asked to 
introduce a vote of censure upon 


the government. The Imperial 


House of Commons was face to 
face with a great issue. 


It is pos- 
sible that history will show that 
the fate of the nation hung in the 
If the nation’s fate had 
been the concrete.issue the mem- 
bers of the House could not have 
listened with more wrapt ettentior 
to the arbiter than they did to the 
words that fell from the lips of Sir 
Edward Grey. 

The House. was crowded to its 


balance. 


Right minded people will appreciate } 
such opinions and will pass thew to 
friends who may not bave seen them. 

The Daily edition is $3.00 a year and 
the Weekly only $1.00. These rates are 
low, since it costs much more to produce 
a paper like the Winegs than it does to 
produce many of ita leading competitors. 
Character counts because it costs. 


The Witness is published by John Don- 
gall & Son, Meotreal, and has now com- 
pleted its sixty-second year. 


utmost capacity. The Peers were 
as eager as the, Commoners to 
hear the speech of the Foreign 
Minister, They jostled and crowd- 


ed each other in their small gallery 


and overflowed into the side gal- 


lery. The nations of the world 


were as eager as the subjects ot 
the King to hear the debate. The 
Austrian umbassador occupied a 
‘prominent place. Next to him 
was Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the Am 
erican ambassador, sitting cheek 
by jowl with Viscount Kato ot 
Japan. the 
German naval attache, while rep- 


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your eyes. 


as the company refused to ayree 


to the proposal, These are sam- Near to both was 


ple cases involving small amounts, 


but it can be readily -understood|resentatives of Italy, Portugal, 


Have your eyes properly 
examined by 


Mrs. Meadows, Optician, 
131 Jasper W., Edmonton. _ 


that a number of such operations}|Sweden and Spain could be easily 


would make very considerable in-|picked ont from among the dis. 


rodds upon the and|tinguished band of foreigners. 
Mr. A. H. Lee set the bali roll. 
ing by moving “That in the opinion 
, that at St.jof the House the declared policy 
John seems to be a fair ¢example./of the government respecting the 


‘Treasury, 


would swell the party fund mater- 


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CcCiTyv LIVERY and FEED STABLE 
First Class Rige ’ 
and Good Drivers, 


to Commercial ,Trade , 
PRAYING ON SHORT NOTICE. 
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Advocate and Notary, 
P, 0. Box 2a Calgary, Alberta 


‘Money to Loan! 


Private Fundé —on Real Estate. 
A. M. MacDONALD 
Merchants Bank B’'ld'g 


ANDREWS 
Boot andShoe Making 


Repairing neatly done. 


- Opposite Adelpbi Hotel 
Cor. Railway and Allan St. Lacombe 


Lacombe, Alta. 
All work promptly . attended to. 
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Stewart Cruikshank, 


CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. 
Estimates furnished. 


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Je a” CARTER, | 
’ Auctioneer — 
‘(al Fost Experience) 

Rep Wittow, - Alberta, Canada. 
Will cry sales on short noti¢e. anywhere 
in the Province of Alberta, ‘Leave on 
ders with J.,D. Skinner, Lacombe. 

. Perms reasonable. 


Blacksmith Shop 


1 have removed. my Blacksmith 
Shop to the Palmer building, nex: 
t+ Morris: & Taylor's warehouse. 
and am prepared to do all kinds of 
work in my line, including. plow 
werk, wood work and borse Bhar. 
inne. ; 
FRED TAYLOR 
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MEYFHODIST CHURCH. , 

Rev. T. Powell, .. Pastor; ~ public 
service, every Sabbath morolng at 11 
o'clock; every Sabbath evening 7 o'clock. 
Sabbath Schoo} and Bible Class every 
Sabbath afternoou -at 3-0’clock., Ep- 
worth League Monday evening at 8 
o'clock. Junior Epworth League Mon- 
day afternoon at 4:30. Public prayer 
meeting Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. 
Strapgers aod visitors are extended a 
_ special welcome. 


PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 
Services every Sabbath at 11.4. m. 
and 7 p, m,, Sabbath School at 12a’clock, 
Whbristiag Endeavor eve Wednesda y 
rt *e m. Pastor Rev, M. Whit, M.A, 


8ST, CYPRIAN’S CHURUE. 
Sunday services, 11, a, m.,7 pm. Ho- 
ly Communion Ist and third Sundays of 
the month, lla. m. Sunday school, 3 
pw. Service,Weduesday, 8 P. m,--Rev, 
R. A. Robingon, 


Th the ‘first laa) I Noa impress 


pon m ents the i mee of 
enretel “ing and remit habits. “/for the theft they said, going of with- 
paetey oo " eating, aa a out detection for seven. mohths. The ac. 
ee 
elothidig nee abtae © i preeantions. pe mgs Pity NaS) wee sort y) 
No amount of medicine will, cure years ov the first, second and fifth Chamberlain's Pain Bal 
or even help, awe attention is paid |codnta, one year on the third atid fourth A _ er fib . aye 
fi rules, nan jua- 
to t von pies nt Seetaet ENO and of the sixth, seventh aod eighth he Phare Cate Bee praise, rurey i fieneed 


patients folowed 


and rheumatig specific: Finid, Ex- this afternoon, Chamberlain's Stomach and 
tract Cuseara, 1, o2.; Fluid Extract | ae Liver Tablets. 
Oarriana Compound, oz.; Compound |* One in seven Called by Consam ptton, 


Syrup Sarsaparilla, 6 oz. Dose: Ong 
teaspoonful. after meals and at 


pede Steal of 


time. 


It is advisable to 
Water during the trea 
A pfominent local srarebant who 
has tried this treatment states that 
* it réHeves backache, bladder trouble, 
and urinary troubles almosa imme- 
diately, and has a‘ 
ough action on the 
@ advise all onr readers to keep 


this prescription. The instructions 


are valuable, 


idneys. 


Light and Heavy Harness 


Stock, saddles 
Stride saddles 
Side saddles 

Tents, 


Bickmore’s Gall Cure, 
Axle Grease, etc. 


WwW. 


Capital Paid Up - 


L. 


Reserve Fund 


Total Assets over 


A general banking business transacted 


Awnings 


at right prices. 


AT 


Elliott's. 


be = Merchants Bank 


-OF CANADA. .... 
HEAD OFFICE, .- 


Savings Bank Depdirtgent. 


Interest at three per gent per annum 
allowed on Savings Bank Deposits of 


81.00 and upwards. 


A. BELCHER, Manager. 


Lacombe Branch 
A 


A Woloome Visitor. 


A weekly visitor that always meets 
with a hearty welcome, in the homes of 
Canada is the “Northern Messenger” 
illustrated story paper filled with matter 
of the purest and best and at the same 
time the most entertaining type. For 
over forty years it has been tested and 
tried, but not found wanting. And to- 
day in the home and it the Sunday 


School it takes first place. 


counted on as a force that “Makes for 
while its bright stories 


righteousness,” 


aod verses, itaSuoday School, Temper- 
ance and household departments, its 
large print section for the little folks 
make it afavorite with young and old 
The annua! subscription is only 
forty: cents with liberal clubbing rates 
to Sunday 


alike. 


and! 


very 
Schools. 


epecial 


lerms 


Samples free from the 


Joho Dougall & Soo, 
Montreal, 


is’ now 
new management 
Co. * Meals at all ‘hours. 


Restaurant! 


The Restaurant in Russel Block 
opposite Fortune's. livery stable, 
doing businers 
Yock Twoy & 


and confectionery. 


Creamery For Sale, 


Oue of the best in the West, io 
an excellent dairy district. 
particulars Correspond with 


these instractions, 
assisted by the following blood tonic 


ntle. but thor- 


MON'LREAI 


$6, 
4,400,997 
50, 


publishers, 
“Witness Office,” 


the 


t Penk i Mecaie 
| Saskatoon, Sask. April 
the absdonding Norther Grown a 
; game before Ju d 
thérning tor senténes. “J.D. a 
assisted by P, Looke, of Winnipeg, 
peared tor the defence and made 


pleas for leniency, on adcou Por 
over’s agé and hia parents. dy» a ing Congh. 
two positions in the bank waa the cause, ; 


was givét four years to run conctrrently. 


tism. Price 25 cents; rge size 50 cents. 


He will #6 to ‘Edmonton ‘penitentiary 


For Disorders of the Stomach, Liver 
A dreadful plague indeed when yotjatd Bowels. Price 25 cents. 


consider that in incipient stages it can Le 
cared,. Take care of the little cold be- 
fore it becomes a tig: ore. When the 
throat is sore and it burte to expand your 
chest, rub in Nerviline and immediately 
apply one of Polson's Nervilibe Porous 
Plasters. -Pain and tightness are at once 
relieved. Inflammation and goreness 
gradually disappear and fatal illness is 
thus avoided, Nerviline Plasters act as 
a counter irritant over the seat of pain, 
and as an exterior application in curing 
colds in the wuscles, in pleurisy and 
headaches they have no equal. Keep 
these remedies right in your home. 


Every one of these preparations 
is guaranteed and if not fully sat- 
isfactory ‘to the purchaser the 
money will be refunded. 


SERIOUS DEPLETION IN 
FUNDS 


HARD TIMES HARD ON THE POOR 
CONSUMPTIVE 


Muskoka Free Hospital for Consump- 
tives Makes an Urgent Appeal 
for Money. 


$25,000 Required to Cover Bank Overdraft 
and wouse for Maintenance of 
Poor Patients. 


More Women CutThroats, 

St. Petersburg, April 26—A band of 
women cut-throats, who for many 
months have been committing with im- 
pupity a series of murders, was discover- 
ed and arrested yesterday in the village 
of Kurchina, 30 wiles from St. Peters- 
burg. 

The principa) culprits are a mother 
and her two daughters, who kept a tav- 
erp. Assisted by other wowen io the 
village they murdered travellers wh 
stopped at the ion for the night, disfix- 
ured the, bodies beyond recogoition and 
then tbrew them into a rapidly thowiog 
stream that ee near the ion. 


These head-lines tell the story of 
our needs, 

They are heavy and urgent. 

Many times during the past twelve 
months the question has pressed 
itself upon the Trustees, ‘‘'Can we 
j continue the work further?” e 

Every month brought its quota of 
accounts for salaries and wages of 
staff, bills of butcher, milkman, 
ergs, groceries, heavy coal bills— 
a serious item—and other uncon- 
trollable expenses so long as the 
doors were kept open. 


Dr. Hamilton Follows Nature's Plan, 


No physician was more successful ‘in 
treating stomach aod liver troubles than 
Dr. Haniilton. He avoided harsh medi- 
cines and produced a wonderful pill of 
vegetable composition that always cures, 
Dr. Hamilton’s Pills are noted for 
promptly curing biliousness, sick head: 
aches, constipation and stomach troabk ,' 
They work like a charm —very mild—yet 
searching and health-giviog, Nowhere 
cap a better tonic laxative be found than 
io Dr. Hamilton's Pills. Try them apd 
be convinced. 25c at all Speirs. 


4> 2am boom 


To Impose Tax on Bachelors. 

A recent Lonon dispatch says: In im- 
posing a tax on bachelors, the example 
set by the Bulgarian Sobranje may pos- 
sibly be followed hy the! chancellor of 
the exchequer in Eogland, not only asa 
means of additional revenue, but also 
‘with a view to conciliating the suffrag- 
ettes. Such a tax existed in England 
trom May 1, 1695, to August 1, 1706, dur- 
iog which period every vowarried man 
had to pay an impost, graduated accord- 
ing to his station in life. This ranged 
from $63 in the case of dukes and ‘arch- 
hishops, down to 25 cents in the case of 
those scheduled | us‘ ‘other persons.” 


These had to be paid somehow. 
Contributions — especially’ after 
the turn of the year when the finan- 
cial depression was felt at its keen- 
est—fell off to such an extent, that 
each month the burden became 
heavier. 

During all this period there was 
only one thing to do, and that was 
to Jean on our banker—swelling the 
bank overdraft. 

The trial was the severest -in the 
history of these Muskoka Homes, 
in which nearly 3,000 persons, 
stricken by the dread white plague, 
have been cared for. 


00v,000 
000,00¢ 


Catarrh Cured or Money Back. 


The cause of catarrh is a germ. It 
multiplies in the bronchial tubes aod 
finally reaches the lungs. Cough syrup 
cao't follow to the lungs—it goea to the 
stomach—and fails to cure—-Catarrbo 
zove is inhaled. It goes everywhere— 
gets right after the germs—kills them — 
heals the soreness — stops discharge aod 
hacking -cures every trace of catarrb, 
throat irritation, colde or Uronchitis, if 
you use Catarrhozone. 2c aod 8100 
sizes sold every where, 


ap 


It can be 


ot Life at Muskoka Free Hospital for 


sum pti ves, 


Daring Calgary Burglars. . 
Calgary, Alta, April 26,—During last 
eveniig’s beavy windstorm, wheo all 
good people were indoors, daring bur- 
glars carried away the safe from the store 
vf 5s. T. J. Turcottee, Sunnyside, the su; 
burb north of the city acd opened it with 
crowbers, The safe contained two hun- 
dred dollaré and valuable papers. A 
horse fo a stable wt the rear of the store 
was hitched toa rig to haul the safe a 
wile away. After opening the safe the 


But never for a single hour did 
the doors of the Free Hospital fail 
to swing open, and give a welcome 
to suffering ones without money 
and without price. 

The good news has gone forth of 
a rich harvest the wide Dominion 
over. 

Friends, we come to you at this 


time, when the clouds of depression 
are being lifted, asking that you 
jnow—in the direness of ‘our ex- 
tremity — help to lift the burden 
being carried—not for any personal 
gain, but solely, alone, only on 
behalf of suffering sisters and 
brothers. 

Our plea is on behalf of the sick 
ones, 

What will you give? 

Do not say nay, 

Help generously. 

Help all you can. 

Help some. 

Help now. 

Contributions may be sent to 
Ww, J Gags, Esg., Chairman Be 
ecutive Committee, 84. 5 
Avenue, Toronto; or J. S, Ropert, 
son, Sec.-Lreasurer: National. Sani- 


horse was driven back and uphitched. 
Se 


5,000 Facte About Canada, 

The public will welcome the 1009 re- 
vised dition of thie valuable booklet, 
which has been happily described as a 
tabloid encyclopedia of Canada, It is 
uoique and clever io its arrangement as 
worked out by ite compiler, Mr, Frank 
Yeigh, of Toronto, the well knowa writer 
and lecturer. 30,000. copies have alneads 
veeu sold. The resources; wealth aod 
husiness of the country are given in a 
concrete form—« fact in a sentence, Mr. 
Hamar Greenwood, M. P. for York, Bog., 
yays;' “Tt is an eye-opener to even aA 
keen Canadian like myself.” A copy 
way be had for 25 cents from the Cana- 


undey 


Fruite 


Fo 


D.©. GourLay, —|aidn Pacts Publishing Co., 667 Spadiaalyarium Assocation, 347 King Street 
Lacombe, Alta. 4 ve, Toronto, _ West, Toronto, Canada. 
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BROILING MEAT & TOASTING BREAD 


One way produces evenly broiled meat and 
evenly toasted bread without taxing the 
patience of the housfwife. This way is repre- 
sented by “Sask-alta” Range. The reason: 
“Sask-alta” Ranga bas an Automatic Lift Top 
(Patented) in addition to regular 
Broiler Door; and this team works . 
for the operator instead of making 
her work: 


The “Sask-alta” Way 

Another way produces 
unevenly broiled meat and 
unevenly toasted bread 
and taxes the patience of 
the housewife. This way 
is represented by most 
Ranges. The reason: 
Some Ranges have ‘only” 
a Broiler Door, others have 
a contrivance like that 
illustrated in top small Another Way 
drawing; both of which enjoy the distinction 
of tiring the arm that holds the broiler and 
tiring the eye that directs the arm. 


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means range perfection. 


OR years the name ‘‘ GURNEY- 
OXFORD” has stood for the 
highest development in cooking 

ranges. No matter what conditions the 
range must meet, no matter what price 
you wish to pay, you will get more 
range efficiency for your money in 
the ‘‘Gurney-Oxford"’ lines than in 
any otber that’s built. 


All our years of experience and our 
store of range knowledge is put into 
this, one of our latest productions— 


Golden Nugget 
Steel’ Range 


is built of dead flat, patent levelled steel and lined with asbestos— 
the kind that stands all kinds of heat and never warps or cracks. 


It’s supplied with the new Gurnev- 
Oxford reversible grate, too. The 
grate with the interlocking teet! 
that cut off the dead ashes, when 
operated, and makes the fire re- 
spond quickly. No good coal drops 
through it either, every particle is 
burnt. That is one of tlis range’s 
fuel-saving features, 

This grate can be removed and a 
wood-burning grate substituted 
without moving a bolt.or a scfew. 


Then, notice the extra large oven 
—splendid for baking day.. And 
the drop door forms a solid shelf 
for basting. 


The fire linings can be removed 
without disturbing the top—-that 
means economical repairs. 


The Gurney-Oxford Golden Nug- 
get Range is a low-price range 
with high-price efficiency, 

We would like to explain it to ‘ou 
in detail. 

We know that once you have | seen 
it you won't be satisfied until you 
have this labor-saving, fuel-saving 


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GURNEY.OXFORD 
Chancellor Range 


built of patent-levelled, dead- 
flat steel—will last . lifetime. 
Fitted with the Duplex revers- 
iblegrate, which can be removed 
without disturbing the linings. 


The Gurhey-Oxford Chancellor 
range saves food, fuel and worry, 
takes all the bother out of 


cooking. range in your kitchen, 
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* A apring medicine is 
cessity to most people. 
mands 
the impurities that have accumu 
in the blood 
winter, months. 


necessity of @ 


dose themselyes With harsh, 
purgatives, This is a serious m take. 
rt Ask any 


r] disease. 


needs building up—purgatives can 


not do this; they weaken you «tv‘ll 
more. _The blood should be made 
tich, ted and pure--no purgative cen 
do this. What is needed it the spring 
is a tonic, and the best tonic medical 


science )has yet discovered is Dr 
Williams’ Pink Pills. 


this medicine actually makes ne-v. 


rich blood. This new blood strenz- 


thens every otgan, every nerve, and 


every part of ‘the body. This is avhy 


they cure headaches ‘and backaches, 


rheumatism and netralgia, and a ost 


of other troubles that come from poo-, 
watery blood. That is why men and 
women who take Dr. Willianis’ Pink 
Pills eat well, sleep well, and feel 
bright, active and’strong. If you ned 


a medicine this spring try this great 


reviving tonic, and see the new life, 
new health and new strength it -viil 


put into you. Sold by all medicine 


dealers 6r+by mail at 50 cents a box 

“or six boxes for $2.50, from The Dr. 
Williams’ Medicine Co., Brockville, 
Ont. 


Absorbent 

‘A man should go into the jury box 
with a mind like a sheet of blank 
paper.” 

“Yes! and if it happens to be sn 
unwritten law case he’s liable to come 
out with a mind like an old blotter.” 
—Washington Star. 


Minard’s Liniment relieves Neuralgia. 


Objection Overruled 
“Oolonel, we want a contribution 
from you to help build a mission 

church.” : 


“Judge, you know well enough that 


while I am in sympathy with morali- 
ty and religién I don’t believe in 
churches in the abstract, an——” 

“Neither do {, colonel. 
ing to build this one of concrete.’—- 
Chicago Record-Herald. 


2 “SI aay, D’Orsay, have you 
heard that joke about. the guide in 
Rome who 
two skulls of St. Paul, one a hoy. 
ng Peony other as a man?” 

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The Ninety and Nine 


A certain minister was deeply im- 
pressed “by an address on the evils cf 
smoking given at a recent synod. He 


rose from his seat, went over to a tel- 
low minister, and -said: 


“Brother, this morning I received a t 
I have 


present of 100 good cigars. 
smoked one of them, but now I’m go- 
ing home and burn the remainder in 
the fire.”’ 

The other minister arose and said 
it was his intention to accompany his 
reverehd brother. ; 


“T"mean to rescue the 90 and 9,” he 


added:—Philadelphia Ledger. 


“ake 


Some of these days we are going 
to. take a vacation and sleep just as 
late in the morning ‘as we feel like. 


“‘T-can testify to the 
great merits of your Emul- 
sion, especially in all 


a 

nature. It has saved many 
lives that otherwise would 
have yielded to consump- 
tion . . . we keep Scott's 
Emulsion in the house all 
the time and all the family 
use it.”—MR. C. J. BUD- 
LONG, Box 158, Wash- 
ington, R. L 


Scott’s 
Emulsion 


does ALL it does by creating 
flesh and strength so rapidly 
that the progress of the 
disease is retarded and often 
stopped, It is a wonderful 
flesh builder and so easy to 
digest that the youngest child 
and most delicate adult can 
take it. If you are losing flesh 
from consumption or any 
other cause take Scort’s 
Emu.sion. It will-stcp the 
wasting and strengthen the 
whole system. 


Be sure to get SCOTT’S 


Ald, DLUGSISTS 


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Let us send you s copy of Mr. Budlong’s 
Jetter---bis cago ic really wondorful--and 
somo intorestin~ Mteratarc regardins cur 
proparction. Juct send us « card men- 
tioning this papor. 


SCOTT & BOWNE 
126 Wellington &., W. 


Tevet. 


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POR 06 0 REEF LR ee A eee ee Se a 


an’ actual nc- 
Nature de- 
it as an aid ‘in ‘yomrtn J off 

ated 


during. the indoor life cf 
But unfortunately 


thousands of people who recoghize the 
medicine do 


not know what is best to take and}, 
riprng 
Y doctor and he will tell you 
%y that the use of purgative medisine 


weakens the system but does not cary 
In the spring the systen 


Evety dose of 


We are s0- 
“VW 
showed some travellers 


deah « boy—no—aw—let 1-e 
heah it.’’—Boston Tramsvript. 4 


iG 


though a man_of law, ently 
ia will stipulated that 
ried 18 feet — on 
je of the church, the 

annum was set aside 


r 
prayer boys,” each of whom 
receive 40¢. The task of the 


to 


“boys is not a light one. On 
morning of Feb. 2 have to 
bareheaded around the tomb, 


recite trom memory the Lord’s Pray- 
et, the Ten Commandments, Apostles’ 
Creed, read the 1th chapter of the 
First Epistle to. the Corinthians, and 
then write from cictation in a legible 
oT verses from the same chap- 
r, 
Thé erdave beite on the north side, 
there is no shelter from the «biting 
wind, and marv a_ cormhpetitor—per- 
haps an expen, scholar—when numbed 
with the cold hra his discomfiture 
added to by contact with the cold mar- 
ble. Consequentl~ he blundets in-his 
recitation and fails to become a prize 
winner. Letely, however, a small tent 
has beén drawn erovnd the tomb to 
act as a wind-screen for the juveniles, 
and the reading rnd writing exercises 
are .condrcted in the schoolroom. 
Some of the bofs in the recent com- 
tition, almost stammering through 
he cold, were secretly rejoicing that 
it feM to their lot to repeat the short 
Commandments, but a moment later 
the judges were calling upon therh to 
show their proficiency in the knowl- 
edge.of the second and fourth, The 
“forty shilling:” is a cherished award 
in the little village. — 


Singing Fish. 

Fish always dumb? Not abit of 
it. Any number of them can make 
some kind of noise. 

The common red gurnard of the 
British coasts, on being */ooked and 
hauled rudely out of the briny, will 
grunt loudly and indignantly, as a 
fisherman will *tell you. It is a 
strange croaking sort of. noise, suich as 
one might expect a young rook to 
make. 

Then there is a fish called the but- 
terman—why, nobody knows—which 
is found off the Scotch coast-line. 
This fish, whjch is a fat and comfort- 
able looking beast about a foot long, 
as a rule, makes a distinct hooting 
noise from the back of his throat 
when landed in @ net or caught on 4 
long line. A netful of these fish— 
though they are rather rare—is some- 
times caught, and when they are haul- 
ed in the chorus of sharp, siren-like 
hoots is very startling to a stranger 
to thegcoast. 

But in Ceylon there is a shell-fish 
—s kind of mussel—which positively 
sings: ‘In still weather, when the 
water. has ¢bbed away from the 
mussel-béds for a few hours, these 
shell-fish can be heard producing a 
long. low fluting sound. How they 
do it.no one knows, but they certain- 


singing, and as thev have no throats 
they must produce. the sound by some 
manipulation of their double shells. 
The sound is low and not at all un- 
pleasant. but rather sweet to the car 
on a still summer’s night. 


Entombed Eight Days. 

Twenty-four natives have been res- 
cued alive and well from the Wit 
watersrand gold mine, which was 
flooded by the outbursting of dams a 
few days ago. 

The condition of the natives who 
have been rescued is wonderful, con- 
sidering their eight days’ entombing 
without food. P 

The wives of Mr. Prout, the mana- 


ger, Dr. Perkins, the. mine doctor, 
and Mr. Matthews, the mine cap- 
tain, accompanied their husbands 


with the rescve party below. 

It is believed that the constant sup- 
ply of compressed air saved the lives 
of those rescued. 

The greatest efforts are still being 
made to effect the rescue of any 
men who may still be alive in the 
mine. 


Explained to the Wrong Duchess. 
That distinguished stateman Lord 
John Russell once took the then 
Duchess of' Inverness into dinner. 
When Lord John got to his place, he 
suddenly left his ducal partner, and 
walked round to the other side of the 
table and sat down beside the Duchess 
of 8t. Albans. Lady Russell asked 
her husband afterwards: ‘“‘What on 
earth made you leave the Duchess 
of Inverness and go across to the 
Duchess of St. Albans?’ “Well,” re- 
lied Lord John Russell, “TI should 
ave been sick if I had sat where 
they had placed me, for the fire was 
lat my back.” “But I hope,” said 
| Lady Russell, “‘that you explained 
| this to the Duchess of Inverness?” 
“Oh, no, I didn’t,” replied her hus- 
band. “‘but I did to the Duchess of 
Bt. Albans !” bg 


Madame Albani’s Gracious Act. 
The fact that Madame Emma Calve 
recently sang at the bedside of a doo- 
tor who was ill and had expressed a 
desire to hear her magnificent woice 
reealls a similar incident in the ca- 
reer of another famous prima donna, 
Madame Albani. Some years ago, 
when she was on a visit to Norwich, 
an old gentleman, who had formerly 
heard her sing “The Last’ Rose of 
Summer,” wrote to ask if he might 
hear it again just once more before 
he died. Although hy was a total 
stranger, Madame }bani, was 80 
touched at his request that she went 
straight to the ide of the invalid 
«and cheered his last moments with 
her wonderful rendering of the beau- 
tiful song. 


Novel Service In Memory of Milton. 
| Ata P. 8. A. service held at the Ful- 
ham (Eng.) Congregational Church re- 
cently in connection with the Milton 
tercentenary, a blind man read the 
lessons, a blind quartette sang to the 
accompaniment of a blind organist 
and a blind man ed the piano. 
The subject of the was; “John 
| Milton. the Blind Poet.” 


ly make a quite distinct attempts at 


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ean count on only five lobes to 
lungs; while Eve’s daughters can 
yi on seven; which accounts for 

oman having the last word in a «m- 
trovéray. 


Fortune Eaten by Rats 

Once a noted French beauty, she 
Countéss de la Premiere, was fouiid 
anconscious on Monday in a wretyi3/ 
room in the ancient city of wens 
When the policé, called by the neick- 
bors, who were alarmed at not sc eing 
the countess about as usual, ente...! 
the room they found her nearly 4 +1 
from starvation, and also discs¥: ted 
that rats had destroyed a fortuna Uy 
gnawing up marty bank-notes anil 
bonds in the cupboard. 


Repeat 
it: —“Shiloh’s Cure will always 


cure my coughs and colds.” 


Strong Commendation 

Harlow—You. are acquainted with 

Jigsmith, I believe? 
arlow—Y es. a 

aa Trea you. consider him hon- 
es : 

Barlow—You bet I do. Why, I ence 
loaned him a $10 umbrella and he 10- 


; turned it the next. day. 


2 


Marion Bridge, O.B., May 30, ’02. 

I have handled MINARD’S LENI- 
MENT during the past year. It is al- 
ways the first Liniment asked for here 
and unquestionably the best seller of 
all the different kinds: of Liniment I 


handle. 
NEIL FERGUSON. 


This is “the season of year when 
the average housewife begins to get 
awfully stingy with her canned fruits. 


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at any drug store. 


If you select your shoes with a 
view of comfort instead of style, it 
is a sign that you are growing old. 


_ His Brilliant Scheme 

Small Boy (in chemist’s shop)—“I 
want the medicine the doctor ordered 
for my mother.” ‘ 

Chemist—“Here it is, my lad, but 
there’s twopence more to pay. You'd 
better run home and fetch it first.” 

Small Boy (after perplexed pause)— 
“T’ll tell you what. You drink. two- 
pen’orth out; -that will make it just 
right!” 


Happy Bride (on wedding tour)— 
You say we are coming to a tunnel, 
Harry? Is it a long one?” 

Bridegroom (momentarily depress- 
ed)—Yes; entirely toa long. The con 
ductor tells me they light up the 
ears before entering it.’’—Chicago 
Tribune. 


Minard’s Liniment Cures Dandruff. 


Mme. Oristin, a woman of vighty, 
was being: put in her coffin in Pa-is 
when she sat up and asked for a 
drink. She recovered, and in. the 
afternoon was able to leave her. bed. 

i] 


Only the uninformed endure the 
agony of corns. The knowing ones 
apply Holloway’s Corn Cure and get 
relief. _ 7 


The Nursé—Mrs. Judson, baby has 
swallowed one of those silver favors 
you’re going to give your guests this 
evening.” 

Mrs. Judson—That’s awful, Marie. 
Why, I just had enough to go around. 


Throat 
Coughs 


Ask your doctor about these 
throat coughs. He will tell 


vou how deceptive they are. 
A tickling in the throat often 
means serious trouble ahead. 
Better explain your case care- 


jfully to your doctor, and ask 
ihim about your taking Ayer’s 
Cherry Pectoral, 


INSTRUCTION IN STORY-TELLING 


Torentonian ts Running a School for 
After Dinner Speakers. | 


Mr, P. Grenville Kleiser, a Toron’ 
tonian who: some ten years ago took 
up his residence in the United States, 
has won’ some attention through’ 
new scheme of his own. devising— 
that of teaching people to tell funny 
stories. Mr. Kleiser commenced ’*is 
eareer in Toronto in the early tiine- 
ties as a concert elocutionist, and 
later became ‘fér a season private 
secretary to the’ late Richard Mans- 
field. Then he returned to Toronto 
and commenced thé teaching of ex- 


| pression and conducted an entertain- 


ment bureau. He is now established 
in New York, and among his activi- 
ties is that of ‘‘conductor”. of the 
Public Speakers’ Club. 

The scheme which he put forward 
a week or so ago is so mnique that it 
has engaged the attention of the 
press,..whose humorists, seems to be 
sceptical as to’ the outcome, A report- 
er went to hear Mr. Kleiser lecture 
to his ¢lass in extempore humor, and 
says that it numbered at least eighty 
persons. It more than intimates that 
if Mr, Kleiser succeeds in turning 
them into humorous individuals he 
will have. performed a task greater 
than the Idbors-of Hercules. It is 
stated that they were of all ages, 
nationalities, and previous occupa- 
tions. After Mr. Kleiser had told 
sixty funny stories in fhe space of 
an hour—charting them on a biack- 
board as he did so to show that there 
were only twenty-three o al stones 
in the world, the balance being varia- 
tions therefrom—he invited his: pupils 
to the platform one by one, each ,to 
tel] a story of his own, and 
sear his method “when it was 


The chief admonition that he gave 
was not to tell the: point before you 


“have told the narrative. He also ad-} 


vised his pupils not to try to tell a 
story of Which they had forgotten 
the point, The pupil exhibition 
seems to have been rather a painful 


episode, and Mr. Kleiser showed that 


he is not devoid of humor himovlf 
by closing the proceedings with the 
remark : 


“Now, I think that you will . be-|& 


lieve me when I maintain the anti- 
quity of all jokes.’”’ . 


Jim Hill as a Cain Raiser. 

» With a great blare of trumpets and 
bang of cymbals the Vancouver press 
has announced that Jim Hill. is go- 
ing. to connect up a number of ‘stray 
raliroad links from aralvosibe to Van- 
couver, put on -a five-day penne 
service between these cities and make 
the latter a_ cotton export point. Oh, 
yes. Jim Hill is always going to 
raise Cain. It is Jim Hill who is al- 
ways planning to put on a limited 

n between St. Paul and the Paci- 
fic coast that will knock all existin 
speed. records into a cocked hat. 
is Jim Hill who is going to collar the 
trans-Pacific trade with a huge fleet 
of ocean-going steamships. Some 

rs ago when the Kalso and Slocan 
Railway was added to the Great 
Northern, it was predicted that the 
line wovld be standard gauged and 
extended from Sandon to Slocan City 
by way of New Denver and Silverton. 

e projected program was not only 
not carried out, but the original Kaslo 
and Slocan has been lopped ix. two 
and the service cut down to tri-week- 
ly. Yet it was Jim Hill who was or 
ing to make a great line for trade 
tween the Kootenays and Spokane, 
out of the Kootenay Valley line, ex- 
tending from Bonner’s Ferry to 
Keotenay Landing. The service on 
that is now a tri-weekly one also, 
Jim Hill was going to push the V.V, 
& E. through to the coast in rd 
order and smash all apisting freight 
rates to Gehenna, open u e Simi- 
kameen and develop country 
thereabouts. Just now the people of 
that neighborhood are w : 
whether the crack of doom or. the 
V.V. & E. will come about first, bot 
are now beginning to suspect that it 
will be the former—Kaslo Kootenaian, 


An Old Saw Striked « Nail. 

Mr. Scrappington (tmusinglyy— As 
Lincoln said, a map may fool some of 
the people all the time and all the peo- 
ple some of the time— Mrs, Scrap- 
pingten (briskly)—But you can't fool 
me any of the time!—Puck, 


Didn't Take the Bait. 


Miss Anciente (insinnatingly)—I dis- | 


like my name; it's borrid. Mr. Fly 
(absently)—1 fear it's too late to change 
it now. 

Thick silence. ‘ 


Pretty Unpopular. 


Why, that fellow ls so unpopular he 
couldn't even get a job es a bill ow 
lector.—Philadelphia Record. 


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make 9; there was « 9 in the year of 
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af coal, spring comes. ; 

ei RES 


Repeat -if:—"*Shiloh’s Cure will 


ley, opr 
| barley. rea, a Se eens Hele pirpaafe ane Or Coven cae SHE 
oe Ping gy Ao © We never see tM rying but _ 
| of them all. Tincture of what v2. are inc Lit oes e shat 


he has been wasting 


W. WN. U. No. 734, 


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Pos 


it 
ii 


HEL 


of toll Very pleasant, dear, if 
you will only listen to your heart—and 
mie,” <<» ’ 

“f have listened to you,” she remind- 
light laugh. “Why, Freddy, 


been a era, night in 
year that yo ave not 


alone the cigar came from the 
corner, box on the five cent, end, but 
when the young jJady came Alphonse 
always brought a perfecto from the 
box in the ice chest with an elaborate- 
ly casual “The usual, monsiecur,” 

This was intended to impress the 
gest. with the belief that Sheldon ha- 


“Perhaps,” she said uncertainly, and 
Sheldon pressed the advantage. 

“Wouldn't it be nice if you didn’t 
have to serimp and scrape and plan 
the spending of every penny?” he de- 
manded. “Wouldn’t it be nice to have 
a real home instead of a three room 
flat, to eat regular meals instead of 
chafing dish messes and to—well, to 
have me actoss the table every night 


“and not a table d’hote.” 

“Perhaps.” a) 

It was spoken so low that Sheldon 
had to Jean across the table to catch 
the whispered word. But he did catch 
it, and -his face beamed satisfaction. 

“and you, will marry me?” he cried 
delightedly. ; 

This time he di@ hot hear, bot he 
knew that. the, coveted answer had 
been spoken, and he caught the hand 
that “‘nervously-with the cup, 

He spoke no word, for none ‘was 
needed. Their: eyes told each other 


into words, spoke a language that only 
loyers know—and Sheldon ..was. ¢on- 
tent. 


‘| It ‘was Alphonse whose discreet but 
‘} suggestive cough fromthe doorway 
leading. to the main’ rooin recalled 
them™to more earthly matters and an 
uppaid check. Sheldon drew, a bill 
from his pocket and laid it upon the 
tray. »; Hares es ere 

“Keep ‘thé change)” he said, “and 
“drfhk to our good: fortime.”’ Then ‘Al- 
phonse, helping him into his overcoat, 
fassured ‘his. radiant customer fn 
Wrench and English that I€ should ‘be 
. In Sansin’s customers tipped half a 
back on Saturday night?” commented |:gonar only when the worse for wine. 
Bess. “I don’t know when we have'| fro; 


. ere was a man, to-all appearances 
en out to dinner in the middle of | soper, who tipped 60 cents. Alphonse's 
e week, 


° thanks followed them even out upon 
“Never, I guess,” agreed Sheldom, 


the” street, where Sheldon tucked 
“You see, Saturday is a sort of holly | Bess’ arm into his own with a new 
Gay. 1 get my salary, and you get your) air of proprietorship that the’ girl 
check from the. publishers, and we're , 


. found ‘very comforting. 
both happy and content, even if not in Spell ks whispered, “did you 


red and gold sashes. Tonight °Al- 
plionse’s ‘elaborate politeness was ig- 
nored by the usually genial Sheldon. 
“Now for the news,” he began as the 
waiter headed for the bar. “I couldn't: 
‘wait for Saturday to ‘tell you, thotigh 
it is only-two days off.” ‘ , 
“Isn't it funny ‘that we always fall: 


he Bs 


eee a viknow? that I tired and depressed 

at ppt art in agreement if you | toaaye” .. » Aen : P 
would onl Kear considering a proposal “Taras only taking chances,” he ex- 
as: an feature of the Satur- plained, e witha ‘happy laugh. “I 
day "reminded Bess, with ‘ 


thought it out last night when.I was 
almost in that Benny would put 
‘the deal ‘through. 1 figdred that you 
always felt as I did when” you had 
Mpotey in your pocketbook on Satur- 

nd that you'd feel as 1. do 
“tWo days before pay day. It was 
worth taking a chance by changing 
the day.” * 

Bess patted his arm affectionately. 
“I wish you had found that out be- 
fore.” she whispered. “It is only from 
Saturday to Tuesday that I cared 
about a career.” : 


nity. 
‘proposing. kK 

you Aong”ago that to 
spoil ty career. 1 am making 
mame for myself in the art’ 
and I can't keep house and’ 


“You must go and 
when- 
marry 


“And I've told you,” retorted Fred, 
“that 1 would not stop asking you to 
marry me until you said ‘Yes.’ 1 guess 
I've proposed. to you sixty times in 
last sixty weeks, Bess, and I'm 
for sixty times sixty if 1 have to 
out that long.” 

“Did you ask me out to dinner to 
propose.to me?’ demanded Bess. 

’ ~~ “Not primarfly,” he admitted. “What |; 
I wanted to tell you was that my big 
chance has come at last. Benny Groll 

“has made a*good contract, apd he 
needs a-man to put a little money and 
a lot of time into the business. I have 
more experience than money, but Ben 
wants me, and he'll give me a half in- 
terest if I'll come in, Is what I’ve 
been ‘working and waiting for ever 
since"l came to town, Bess, and this 
fs to Celebrate my good luck.” 


* Cards and Their History. 

Cards are square shaped pieces of 
pasteboard printed with -various de- 
vices and employed.as a business me- 
dium by money changers. They are 
usually made up in packs of fifty-two, 
oné for each week of the year. A good 
many people play cards for pleasure. 
in. which case their opponents are said 
sto be buying experience. In most 
eard games the ule is that the cards 
‘may be cut, but-mot otherwise marked. 
This rule is not, strictly observed in 
games in which only three cards are 
used, Indeed, the marking of cards has 
attained a high degree pf pérfection 
since the introduction ¢f qumerous 
eard index systems. Pashies change 
in card games as im everything else. 
Old maid, for instance, if nowadays 
seldom played in the best clubs, Play- 
ing cards should not be confused with 
,those sold on ericket grounds; which 
are rather larger, or with visiting 
cards, which are emaller.—Pry's Maga- 
zine. . 


2 his own. 
am so glad,” she said 
ly. “You have worked hard, 
and you are-entitied to your reward.” 
“Which is why lam going ask 
for it;” retorted Sheldon. “l am go- 
ing to my usual custom and 
propose on ‘Thursday instead of Satur- 
, Bess, I> want you to work for, 
dear. It will be pretty hard camping 

ont with 


i 


i 


Doubtful Quality. 


apother good day’s work for you,” “I got some free advice from Dr. | 
. “Work, - virtue, shotla “be its | Closeface last night,” 
own rowan Bess, Shel- | “How did you do it?" 
don shook ead impatiently. “Caught bim off his guard at a social 
Wy. simp pel he said, “byt that | gathering.” 
sounds than it works out.. 1| “My free advice to you would be not 
want to feel that when the jdb is | to take it.” 7 
done iy, St Groll .& Sheldon become a By og ee eee 
firm of ffance Mrs, Sheldog is| - Probably. — j 
proud of what her husband has done.” | “Some people are so inquisitive,” 

“I shall always be proud of what | “Yes, but they are usually stupid.” 
you do, reminded Bess. “We | “Stupid?” ae 
two are only ones from the olf | “Yes. If! were as inguisitive as you 
town in all this big city. We have al- | are I would know everything.” 
shall be proud of your great sebleve- Inevitable Conclusion. 
ments." ». ' : is mot atall fond of so 

Seeman ean | rent.” ood Weed ag ‘4 Oe 
} , ow! course am going ; does, does she?” 
after uo matter whet, and | . Pe Mae ea yi ‘ 
fU work es hard without your prom | «fer own dressmaking” 


tain amount of shore leave.to men in 


@id all his work with high efficiency 


‘|. The man -was able to use his knowl- 


in 
messages that never’ have -been put |. 


‘Jane's partner. 


| ing a sip. 


fin § 


VER ISER 2 LACOMBE : 
WEN'S CLOTHES. THE HONEYMOON PARADE. 


Wedding Custom th One Town When 
the Train te Late. 
A Nn city, which need not be to- 
much pleasure from dress and scarce- | cated more particularly than that it in 
ly notice the changes of fashion In | so here east of Boston, hae its own 
men’s clothes, They ate vaguely | pecn) why of speeding the newly 
aware that a hat looks ofd@ when ite | ma of their honeymoon, 
For one thing, every one goes to the 
| atatidn to née the couple depart. This 
fs done in many small eae oe 
¢ showering of rice or confetti and the 
not at the home of the bride, but at the 
greater inter- | station. To that extent the city re- 
It were & | ferred to is not unusual, 


mark of frivolity. But in this city train schedules fre- 
This is an ignorant mistake. Dress quently go awry, and when they do 


is or ought to be an art, and therefore, | the unusual happend. ‘The wedding, of 
if only a minor art, it is a more seri- | course, has been, celebrated on time, 
ous matter than any of the games to |.ana the reception has taken as much 
which many men give reaver his be. time as such thitgs usually take. The 
and pains, Besides, men bave ofily be- | geparture from the bride’s home is 
come indifferent to their clothes in | made in due season to catch the train 
modern times, if it 1s on time, 

In the heroic age of Elisabeth they The wedding guests rush to the sta- 
made themselves as smart as pea- | tion, where all other inhabitants hav- 
cocks. Great soldiers and poets then | ing nothing better to do have assem- 
took pains to be In the height of the | pied already. It is a free show which 
fashion, and fashions changed with | no one would miss. 
some violence and rapidity. In the | ‘he carriage bearing the newly mar. 
eighteenth century, too, which we do | ried pair is drawn by white horses and 
not think of as a time of elfeminacy | decorated with white ribbons. Custom 
and when men were wanting neither | demands this, and nd one has yet had 
in enterprise nor in seriousness, they | the temerity to do otherwise. 
were as splendid and extravagant in| ‘The carriage arrives at the station, 
their dress as women.—London Times. | and it is learned thatthe train is .s0 


many minutes or so many hours late. 
WONDERS OF VELOCITY. 


Usually the measure is in hours. 
The carriage doesn’t wait. It goes 
A Piece of Thin Cardboard Will Cut | parading. It drives around and around 
Through Wood. 


Velocity has a great deal-to do 
with one substance’s ability to break 
fbb sadly hs ccemained ao station. Other curious persona station 
paratively soft substance against a themselves at points along the route 
much harder-one when the former is | JUSt to see the wedding coach pass, 
given enough velocity. A bullet made | Smetimes two or three carriages, 
of a tallow candle would smash flat if | 7@wn by white horses and decorated 
fired aguinst a board from a toy gun, in white, swing steadily around this 
but when shot from an army rifle tt | bymepeal circuit. It seems like an 
ewill go right through the board. endless procession. It is not. unsual 
stream of water has been known to | fF & wedding pair to spend the first 
have such swiftness of movenrent that five hours of their honeymoon just rid- 
a sword was broken in two when a ae round and round waiting for the 
strong man tried to cut it through. n. 

CGyiienes have been known to drive | _ When the screech of the locomotive 
such frail projectiles as straws well finally is heard the triver continues to 
into a tree. swing up to the platform just as the 


\ train comes to a stop. Then the bride 
al cats case uae te and bridegroom make a mad rush for 
performed by attaching a bristol their car amid a shower of rice and 
board disk to the motor of an electric | C°Dfetti and old shoes. The honeymoon 
fan and setting it to revolving at the | P&®rade 18 over.—Exchange. 


fan’s usual rate. If a piece of wood, 
such as a lead pencil, for example, be THE REAL BOWERY. 
earefully applied to the edge of the PS EN 
revolving disk, the wood will’ very | Swiftly Passing, It Has Never Been 
readily be cut through. Of course if Wholly Revealed. 
the disk were to revolve slowly the| he real Bowery’ has never been 
wood would soon blunt its edge.—Path- written. up, and probably it never will 
finder. be, because it is swiftly passing. Hun- 
dreds of attempts have been made by 
Roaring Muscles. those who have not even penetrated 
“If a writer wrote of roaring mus- | the surface of its reserve, Its heart 
cles, you would laugh at him. Joints | and sonl—for the Bowery has both, as 
crack, the stomach thunders, but mus- | wel] ag reserve—are a sealed book to 
cles, you would say, don’t roar. That | the writers. It is a Sargasso sea lit- 
js your mistake, They do.” tered with derelicts of all worlds, drift- 


The speaker, a physician, put his | ing pack and forth with the endless 
finger ia his ear. 


“T hear a muscle roaring now,” said 
he. “Try it, and you, too, will hear the 
sound. And to prove that it is the 
sound of a muscle, put a plug of wood 
in your ear instead, and you will hear 
nothing. ; 

“Contracted muscles give out a roar- 
ing sound. Relaxed muscles are si- 
Tent. This fact is of use in diagnos- 
ing certain diseases. The stethoscope 
makes the mrscular roars audible, and 
those strange voices proclaim the pres- 
ence of such diseases as tetanus, men- 
ingitis or strychnine poisoning, while 
silence on the muscles’ part is, so to 
speak, a sullen admission of the pres- 
ence in their midst of atrophy, degen- 
eration, paralysis.”—Buffalo Express, 


_ 


tirely unnatural and came about from 
a combination of two separate systems. 
The reason was that naval reguiations 
compelled the giving of at least a cer. 


the second grade, while the sy#tem he 
was using actually allowed less to a 
man in the first grade, The result was 
that’ in a short time the bulk of the 
men were in the second conduct grade 
Where they could get the most liberty. 
At.a later date, on another ship, the 
executive officer was an extremely 
able man. who had studied this ques- 
tion more carefully and was a great 
believer in making it worth while for 
the men to behave themselves and 
keep in a high conduct grade. He.s0 
arranged matters that if any man be- 
haved himself sufficiently well and 


he could bave an unusual amount. of 
Uberty. The result was that this ship 
had more than half its crew in what 
is known as the “special first class,” 
far and away the largest percentage 
that ever came under my observation. 
—Walter M. McHarland in Pngineer- 
ing Magazine. ‘ 


EXPERT PLAYERS. 


Four Ladies and an interesting At- 
tempt at Whist. 

The following conversation was over- 

heard by. a waiter at a ladies’ club. 


which the driver can get due notice of 
the approach of the train. 
The crowd remains patiently at the 


’ 


edge of shorthabd to take notes, hav- 
once: been a reporter: 

“Jane,” said Maria, “it is your tead.” 

“Why, no,” answered Jane; “it is 
Ida's.” ax iw" i 

“No,” spoke up Ida; “it is not mi 
lead. Susan dealt the cards.” 

“Why, then, it must be my lead,” 
said Maria. ‘What's trumps?” 

“Hearts!” shouted three young voices 
in unison. 

“Well, 't! is my lead,” said Maria, 
playing the deuce of clubs, 

“But you must lead a trump card, 
my dear,” cried Jane. 

*“Yes, and lead the biggest tromp 
you have in your hand,” ‘put in: Ida, 


“Well, then, here is the queen of 
hearts,” said Maria. 

“Ohayou mean thing, you!” exclaim- 
ed Jane. “That takes my king.” 

“But I will take the trick, for I have 
the ace,” said Ida. 

“But,” remarked Susan, “that ig the 
ace of diamonds.” : 

“So it 1s,” said Ida. “Well, here is 
the four of hearts.” 

“I've got the ace of bearts,” purred 
Susan. “Does that take the trick?’ 

“Of course it does,” answered Jane. 

“No, it doesn't,” said Ida. “A court 
eard always takes another card.” 

“Oh, let’s stop playing!” cried Maria 
wearily. “It’s no fun when there are 
ho men to tell you bow to play.” 


about them is the ceaseless activity of 
commerce, of development, moving 
onward and upward despite the cease- 
Jess cross current, which no litérary 
mariner, cruising in these uncharted 
waters, can understand. 

Those who know it best and have 
some skill in writing as well as some 
understanding are #0 overwhelmed by 
|its endless complications, its infinity 


ness and its frightful depravity, the 
baffling mystery of its wonderful hu- 
‘Manness and its fantastic mystery, 


— _ 


« 
: Banks. 

It was in the City of Brotherly Love 
that the first bank was established in 
1781. It was incorporated by congress 
under the name of ‘“‘The resident, Di- 
rectors and Compafhy of the Bank of 
North America.” Three years tater the 
second bank in the country was opened 
in Boston and called the Massachu- 
setts bank, 

In the’ same year the Bank of New 
York was founded. , 

The first United States bank was 
founded in 1785 and the second in 
1816, in which year the first savings 
banks were established, one in Phila- 
delphia, the otber in Boston,—Scrap 
Book. 7 


even what they know. Only one man 
in all literature could have interpreted 
the Bowery—and Balzac is dead. 

Most of us know the Bowery through 
fugitive newspaper sketches and fear- 
some lurid melodramas; The sketches 
present certain phases more or less in‘ 
telligently, but the melodramas’ are 
weird burlesques, unworthy even of 
being scoffed at, so far as any consid- 


It is Well. 

It is well to carefully cultivate tastes. 
Ruskin says, “Tell me what you like 
and J will tell you what you are.” 

It is well to study human character. 
Bodenstedt says: “In the face of ev- 
ery human being his history stands eration of truth is concerned. But 
plainly written; his innermost nature | these cheap melodramas, endlessly re- 
steps forth to the light. Yet they are | peated, have built up a fiction that has 
the fewest who can read and under- | come to be accepted as the reality.— 
stand.” Everybody's Magazine, 

It is well to “brush up against the 
world.” Goethe says: “Talent forms 
itself in secret. Caaracter is the great In a certain part of Scotland, ac- 
current of the world.” cording to Dean Ramsey, the shep- 

It is well to be never cast down. herds used to take their collies with 
— arpa vn tnteg sin Capt them to church. The dogs behaved 

Be One args -|-well during the sermon, but began to 

Until the day's put and the labor done "| D@ restless during the last pealm and 
| saluted the final blessing with joyful 

Whe the Mound Builders Were, | >#rks. In one church the congrega- 

Who were the mound builders of| t#0m resolved to stop\thia unseemly 
North America? The Rev. Dr. Bryce | 4¢t!l, 80 when a strange minister was 
of Winnipeg has examined a large | *4Qut to pronounce the blessing all re- 
number of these interesting struc- seated instead of rising, as be 
tures and is of the opinion that they |@*Pected., He hesitated and paused 
were built by the Toltecs and mark | ti! an old shepherd cried: “Bay awe’, 
the course of the Toltec immigration | fF! We're a’ sittin’ to cheat the 
from the south alomg the Mississippi ,2°7s*!” 
and Ohio to the t lakes and the 
Bt. Rae Be slong the Missour! and Breskfasting With Whistler. 
along the Mississippi proper to the The was a foreign painter who used 
Rainy and Red rivers. This would|t®? breakfast at Chelsea, and when 
make the earliest mound date from | MF. Cart asked bim if he had been 
about 1100 A. D, > there lately he replied: “Oh, ne; not 

F now so much. He ask me a leetle 
while ago to breakfast, and 1 go. My 
cab fare, two shilling, ‘arf a crown, I 
errive, very nice. Goldfish ia bowl, 
very pretty. But breakfast—one egg, 
ene toast—no more! Oh, no, My cab 
fare, two shilling, ‘arf a crown. 
me no more!"’-—Lopdon Telegraph, 


With a String. j 
“Do you trust your husband im- 
plicitly 
“Wheat a question! Why, of course I 


Fooling the Dogs. 
inadvisable. 

During a snowstorm on the Highland 
railway a train was held up for an 
hour or two. The guard, a cheery 
Scot, passed along the carriages trying 
to keep up the spirits of the passen- 
gers. -An old gentleman angrily com- 
plained that if the train didn’t go on 
he would “die of cold.” 

“Tak’ my advice an’ no’ dae that,” 
replied the guard, “Min’ y’, we 
chairge a shillin' a mile for corpses,” — 
Dundee Advertiser. 


Sour Milk. 
The milk was not of the destred 
sweetness one morning, and little El- 
mer pushed his glaes away after tak- 


“What's the matter with tue milk, 
Elmer?” asked his mother. 

“I guess the milkman hae béen feed- 
ing his cow on pickles” wag the re- 
ply.—Exchange. 


The Duel. 

Gaston burst like a whirlwind in 
upon bis friend Alphonse, '“Will you | 
be my witness?’ he cried, 

“Going to fight?” 

“No: going to get married” ~ 

Alphonse after a pause inquired, 
“Can't you apologize?’—Argonaut. 


His Strong Point. 
“It is true,” said a friend, “that you 
chave amassed a great fortune. But 
your grammar”’— 

“Never mind the grammar,” said 
Mr. Dystin Stax, “This is an era of 
Specializations. I may be weak in 
some branches, but I’m an authority 
on the possessive case.”—Washington 
Star. , 


Writing For Money. 


Two Tragedies. 

To @ woman there are two trage- 
dies. One ts not’ getting the map she 
loves; the other is. getting him. The 
first. ts resfenation, the secopd disiliu 
siun.>New York Herald, 


It ig best to profit by the madness of 


a prescribed route, from every point of | 


ebb and ‘flow of the tide, while all , 


of contradictions, {ts astonishing good- | 


that they do not dare attempt to write | 


For, 


TRING OUT THE STAG 


A “Deer Take” In England's Oid- 
est Deer Park. 


HOUNDED UNTIL HE GASPS. 


The Game Animal te Meroilessly 
Driven Hither and Yon, Through 
Lake and Wood, Until He Falle Ex- 
hausted, Though Undaunted. 


Parts ‘of certain great parks in Hng* 
land, such as Eridge park, the oldest 
deer park in the kingdom, are kept 
practically wild in their original forest 
state, while near to the castle is the 
cultivated home park. Eridge park 
contains 8,000 acres and is the only 
estate in England, with one exception, 
where deer taking with hounds is still 
cafried on. Eridge park once formed 
part of the royal chase, It still retains 
the wild beauty it then had, although 
there are more than seventy miles of 
lovely drives in it, not counting those 
of the home park. : 

Deer taking is entirely different from 
deer hunting. The object is to take 
the animals alive so that they may be 
transferred to the home park to be fat- 
tened and eventually turned into ven- 
ison, el 

The sport is by no means as tame as 
it sounds. A seven to nine r old 
red deer is an awkward er to 
tackle. He is powerful, agile and well 
armed with antlers and hoofs, 

When there is to be a deer taking at 
Eridge park the meet ig planned for 11 
o'clock at the park keeper’s house. 
The underkeepers, with fresh hounds, 
are scattered through the park to head 
off the stag should he come their way. 

The underkeepers having spread 
themselves over the park, the park 
keeper, with the “field” (those follow- 
ing mounted and on foot) set off to 
find a deer which looks ready for fat- 
tening purposes. Having selected one, 
it is the work of the keeper to get him 
separated from the rest and then to 
slip his hound and set after him as. 
hard- as we can gallop. The pace, of 
course, is tremendous, and as rabbit 
holes abound the risk of a fall is even 
betting or, rather, a trifle of odds on 
the certainty of our “taking a toss,”, 
As our deer bounds away with his 
wonderfully easy, elastic movements 
he makes for the wildest part of the 
park, expecting to escape his pursuers: 

In one place aftér another he is met 
with hidden keepers and fresh hounds, 
till with the instinct of his species he 
turns fo. what he thinks is ‘bis sanc- 
tusry—the lakes. With open mouth 
and tongue outhanging be plunges a 
good fifteen feet into the water and 
swims for the opposite bank. Gasp- 
ing and tiring, he lands on what he 
hopes is freedom from hig pursuers. 
But, alas, no! Yet another hb honnd 
is after him. What can he.do?, He is 
too pumped with his already hard 
burst to face the hill before him. 

He turns around and tears down 
through the bracken with a hound on 
each side of him, ready to pull him 
down if they get but half a chance. 
It is a dingdong race, under trees, 
through bogs and bracken, up and 
down dells and breaks, smashing head- 
long’ threugh everything, anything, to 
reach the shelter of the friendly 
water once ‘again, With a mighty 
spring he is in again, For a moment 
there is breathing space, for now the 


| keepers and hounds, yet somé way off, 


are making for the poor beast, which 
is in the middle of the lake. Away he 
swims with graceful movement. of his 
noble head, glancing all around at his* 
pursuers, but with his mind fixed on 
his line of retreat. He reaches the 
shore, and, with dripping sideg, he is 
out upon the bank. 

Again be makes an effort to baffle 
and leave behind those clinging hounds 
that would hear him down. And now 
two great hounds are stretching them- 
selves out to thedr utmost pace. Bide 
ty side they race after their tiring 
quarry; in another’ minute they will 
have him. The stag, however, man- 
ages to make a spurt, though he is 
now stiffening rapidly, and just 
reaches some park palings surrounding 
the big lake. ; 

In an instant be bas turned on his 
pursuers, and with head down and up- 
raised fore leg he is prepared to fight 
to the death. A hound rushes in, but 
in a twinkling be is on. his back, 
buried away like &@ piece of wood. 
This checks the other hound, which 
dodges and bays around the stag. 


‘Peeling that things are now getting a 


bit too warm for him, the stag sudden- 
ly turns round and, smashing the pal- 
ings like match wood, finds himself 
again in the icy water of the big lake. 
Away and away he swims, up this 
long stretch, the water seeming to re- 
vive him, for he swims the eastern 
length, three-quarters of a mille, and 
then lands at the far end while we 
follow on the shore. He swims till his 
feet touch the ground and stands fac- 
ing us. 

All we can do now 1s to end the situ- 
ation as speedily as possible, A keeper 
deftly throws a rope with a loose 
knot over the stag’s antlers, In a 
moment four burly keepers are haul- 
ing him out by the ropes. It is now a 
slow march to his feeding ground in 
the home park. Slowly the procession 
moves, never a slackening of the rope 
or the hold on the antlers. Through 
the gate di the parks he is 
brought, av unwilling prisoner, though 
undeunted. This ends the deer taking. 
~Town and Country, 


Never think that intellect ts nobler 
than the heart, that knowledge is 
greater than love. Not so! A thou 
sand times no.—Frances Power Cobba, 


fete 


’ moving to their farm east of Stet- 


evens: 


TOWN: JCOUNCIL MEETING. 


' Council net in vehi session 
Tuesday evening. Members all 
present. Minutes of last meeting 
read and with one correction. ap- 


When « a ‘Ganlation liar. breaks 
louse, some of bis stunts are alinost 
amasin’, 


, proved. 
Avnger & Shute, dental parlors, 


upstairs over Morris & Taylor's 
hardware store. 


Telegrams were read from the 


[party touring western Canada by 
special train in the interests of the 
Winnipeg World's Fair, announce 
ing that they Would be in Lacombe 
at 9:45 Wednesday and desited to 
meet the officials and other busi- 
ness men of the town. ° 


May 13 is the date of Mrs. Roy 
Clarke Murphy's recital. 
in mind. 


Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Huntley. are 


Keep it 


tler this week. Several unimportant communi- 


cations were read und ‘placed on 
file. 


Accounts to the 


The recital to be given in Day's 
hall on Thursday evening, May 13, 


; ; amount of 
eee ese Beni: $54.46 were presented and referred 
G. H. McFetridge’s have this|to the finance committee. 
week moved into their new house 


in the north-west part of town. 


A representative of a wireless 
teleyraph Company was present 
Miss Winnie Lundy has return- and gave a demopstration with a 
ed home from Boston, where she 


has spent the past few months. 


miniatufe apparatus, the evident 
purpose beiny to enlist—eapital in 


the wireless enterprise. 


8 
The town have a force of men at} The finance committee reported 


work this week putting in the 


recommending payment of -ac- 


crossings decided upon some time 
ayo, 


counts to the amount of $19.40. 
Report adopted and accounts or- 
Interest in motoring is showing |dered paid. 
a marked increase locally this 
spring. Messrs. W. F. Graham, 
A. Belcher and Norm. Morrison 


are sporting new autos. this week. 
! 
Miss Nora Drader and brotbers 


Wilbert and Eugene, of Victoria, 
B. C., stopped over last Friday and 
Saturday for a brief visit with rel- 
atives here, on their ‘way north, 
where all will teach school this 
summer. 


Councillor Kent reported that 
he had 
members of the Fire Brigade and 


interviewed about ten 


they were .all indifferent on the 
matter of accident insurance. He 
recommended that for the present 
no further action be taken towards 
providing accident insurance. 

A communication was read re 
gas producer plant. 5 

A communication from the town 


Solicitor was read, statiog that he 

J. MeCutcheon and bride (for- 
merly Mrs. Cook of Calgary) ar- 
rived in Lacombe Wednesday 
from Calgary, where they were 
married last week, The boys ten- 
dered the young couple an enthus- 
iastic charivari Wednesday night. 


had, as directed by the council, is- 
sued writ on the Blindman Elec- 
tric Company for cancellation of 
contract, . 
Notice was given of a bylaw to 
regulate the sale of fire crackers 


d ot ks i ; 
Don’t fail to attend the evening ROG ollier ANS WOEee JA: <acne be 


recital which will be given in Day's 
hall on Thursday evening, May 13, 
by Mrs. Roy Clarke Murpby, as- 
sisted by Mrs. Archibald and Mrs, 
McKinnel, of Ponoka, and Mr. 
Roy Clarke Murphy of Lacombe. 


Councillor Mobley recomended 
that a box drain be constructed 
across Dolmaye street to drain 
stagnant pool into catch basin on 
Barnett avenue, as asked for by 
P. H. 


effect carried. 


Winter. Motion to that 


Kirk Dix was placed under ar- 


The matter of publication of the 
rest last Saturday morning ‘on a 


Auditer’s 
brought up by Councillor Mooney. 
After some discussion it was laid 


annual report was 
charge of “carnally knowing a girl 
onder fourteen years of age.” The 
magistrate remanded the prisoner 
until Friday at which time be will 


be brought up for preliminary 


over ull oext meeting. 
The question of continuing the 


ringing of curfew during the sum- 
nearing. In the meantime the ac- 


cosed is in jailat Edmonton. The 
information was laid by the girl. 


mer months was brought up by 
the police committee. It was de- 


cided to continue. 


Recital. 

Oo Thursday evening. May the 
13th, Mrs. Roy Clarke Murphy of 
Lacombe, Alberta, will give a Re- 
in Day’s Hall, Lacombe, 
which promises to be the musical 
She will be 
assisted by the following artists: 

Mrs. A. D. Archibald of Ponoka, 
Alberta, reader; Mre. R. W. Mc- 
Kinnel, of Ponoka, Alberta, pign- 
iste; and Mr. Roy Clarke Myrphy, 
of Lacombe, baritone. 


The town assessment notices 
were sent out the latter part of last 
week, and show a higher assess- 
ment than last year, which of 
course means that taxes will be 
higher accordingly. We had 
hoped to see a substantial reduc- 


tion thie year 0 we would have a 


cital 


event of the season. 


few dollars left to paint up the old 
buildings and make them some- 
what more presentable, but evi- 
dently it is not to be, as it will 
take every dollar we can dig up to 


pay our taxes. 
Mrs. Murphy has a pure con- 


A good many show troupes give 
this town the go-by because they 
say it is not a good show town. 


tralto voice which for three years 
was carefully trained by Mr. Cyril 
Dwight Edwards, of London, 
of Canada’s leading baritones and 


one 
We can give the show people a 
pointer, So long as attractions | most saccessful teachers. 
advertised as first class and priced| Mrs. A. D. Archibald is a reader 
at a dollar or seventy-five cents per |of marked ability, having received 
ticket, give theatre goers nothing |ber training at Madame Alberti’s 
better than a ten cent show for | School of Expression in New York 
City. 

Mrs. R. W. 
It would take a lony striag of good |complished pianiste, 
shows, without a break, 


their money, just so long this town 


will remain on the show black list. McKinnel is an ac- 


baving for 
to over-|some four years oveupied the posi- 
come the effects of one sell-out. 


tion of a teacher of piauo in a la- 


as 
> 


Sceemunnianenendl 


Te odealenade La re EW 


dies’ college int one of the southern | 
States, and later on the position of | 
necompaniste to Mr. David Rose |- 
of Toronto, another of Cntiadla’s leat 
leading baritones and teachers, 

Mr. Roy Clarke Murphy pioa- 
senses a baritone voice of great 
compass and excellent quality, ‘He 
received part of his training in the 
east under various teachers . but of 
Inte has been under the ecaréfal 
training of Mrs. Murphy and with 
marked results, 

In presenting these artists Mre. 
Murphy aims to furnish to the 
mosic-lovers of Lacombe and vi- 
cinity a fare treat in return for 
which she and they should be 
greeted by a fall house. 

Seats may be reserved at N. I. 
McDermid’s drug store on and af- 
ter Monday, May 10th. 


Cures ~ Indigestion. 

Take your sour stomach—or 
maybe you call it indigestion, dy s- 
pepsia, 
stomach; it: doesn’t matter—take 


gastritis \or catarrh~ of 
your stomach trouble sight with 
you to your Pharmacist and ask 
him to open a 50 cent case. of 
Pape’s Diapepsin and let you eat 
one 22-grain Triangule and see if 
within five minutes there is lefi 
any trace of your stomach misery. 

The correct name for your 
trouble is food fermentation— food 
souring; the digestive organs be- 
come weak, there is lack of gastric 
juice; your food is only halt di- 
gested, and you become affected 
with loss of appetite, pressure and 
fullness afier cating, vomiting, 
nausea, heartburn, griping in bow- 
els, tenderness in the pit of stom. 
ach, bad taste in mouth, constipa- 
tion, pain in limbs, sleeplessness, 
belching. of gas, biliousness, sick 
headache, nervousness, dizziness 
aod many other similar symptoms. 

If your appetite is fickle, and 
nothing tempts you, or you belch 
gas or if you feel bloated after 
eating, or your food lies like a lump 
of lead on your stomach, you can 
make up your mind that at the 
bottom of all this there is but one 
cause —fermentation of undigested 
food. 

Prove to yourself after your 
next meal that your stomach is as 
good as any; that there is nothing 
really wrong. Stop this fermenta- 
tion and beyin eating what you 
want without fear of discomfort or 
misery. 

Almost instant relief is waiting 
for you. It is merely a matter of 
how soon you take a little Diapep- 
sin. 

The Vancouver newspapers are 
advocating a raise in the assess- 
ment of that city, which they state 
is now less than one-sixth of the 
averaze market value of real es- 
tate. 
Lacombe where as we all know real 


Somewhat different from 


estate is assessed at much above its 
selling value, a fact which bas been 
more than once admitted by mem- 
bers of this year’e council, one 
member having stated that he 
would be glad to sell all of bis real 
estate in Lacombe at less than the 
assessed vale. 


The notorious Kinrade murder 
mystery has at last reached the 
stage of a verdict from the coro- 
ner’s jury, the essential portion of 
the verdict being: “We, the jury 
assembled to inquire into the death 
of Ethel Kinrade, hereby find that 
the deceased met her death by shot 
wounds inflicted by some person 
or persons unknown to thé jury.” 


-ocean the C. P. R. transcontinental there 


Dowinion in the 
autonomy, sald that Premier Robhio had 
been sending representatives from the 
Manitoha goveroment to Ottawa coon 
trom Sir Wilfrid Laurier the saine kind | 
of financial teraia we have in Alberta 


that id, a subsidy ip lied Of lands: This r 
is'only the old fable over of the shield SAE OE Dinh SYS SOM parettneay Wet 


having two sides. ness men; who are tovring the west for 
Oo July ist, 1908, one J. A. Bulfour | the purpose of “boosting” the proposed 

had written to Premier Roblin on :this | World’s Fait in Winnipeg in 1912, pulled 

subject. In reply Mr. Roblin said it] info Lacombe at 9:40 Wedtiesday morn 

part “we would of course prefer to bave 

our own lands, our own timber and tines | * 

and to be indemnified for those taken,| The party wae met at the station by a 

but the trouble with os is that nearly | large turnout of Lacombe business men, : 

all our public lands have been used, and |and ascorted to Day's hall, where’ the 


we cannot hope to get. them. back snd objects of the present tour and the de- 


muat insist on being paid.” Latterly in 
the negotiations with the Dominion gov- sitability of holdibg the ares were 
of | set forth by the visitors. 


ernment in reference to the extension of 

Manitoba's boundaries, Premier. Roblin} Hon. T.Mayne Da'y, of Winnipeg, was 
and Minister Rogers have most definite | hist spokesman at this meeting. He 
ly expressed themeel ves that the Mani- ietathd Vink this Wanoetts irq : 
toba people were willing to accept either * ee cow 
the terme of Ontario that under canfed |™é@morate the laoding of Lord Selkirk 
eration retained all her lands and re-|and the first settlers in the Canadian 
sources or tha same terms of Alberta, a| West. It would be of inestimable value 
gubsidy io lieu uf the lands. An waking this great. country better 


In one of the ridings at che late elec 
tion thebrrambet one put’ up and “we -known to the world. The purpose of the 


think # very good argument to the effect | Present tour was to enlit the active co- 
that by selling 6,000.000 acres of the ag-| operation of the entire west in getting 
ricultural lands at $5 an a -re there oould | financial help for the project from the 
be realized $30,000,000 which invested #t} Dominion government. Mr. Daly iw- 


5 per cent, the interest would umaa ey to pressed upon his bearers that the one. 
$1,500,000 which would be 81,126,000) jutetanding, all important fact to Le 


more than we are pow receiving in “leu! yo5¢ before public attention in connec- 
of our lands which is only $375,000, and) tion with the project, is that it will be a 
$375,000 inore than the maximum amount} pational event, and to the national ad- 
received .when the population reaches) vantage. It will not be merely a western 
1,500,000 which 18 then only 81,125,000) affair. It will be an all-Canadian onter- 
and thereafter no increase. prise. Oaoada has not yet bad a ‘world’s 
The epeaker.on the other side was an fair. It is fitting aod altogether desira- 
editor of the leading Grit paper opposing ble: that the striking. opportunities of 
a farmer, and there and ‘then happened | tne centenary of westerd Canada’s initial 
what has been happening with the Lib-| ,ttiement should be taken advantage of 
erals ever since attaining office in '96— By the holding of ao all- Ganadiat Brpo- 
whet the country’s interest conflicts aition. 
with party, throw dowa the eéuntry, Mayor wise of Winnipeg, spoke 


This great country that had been lauded 
; ; briefly along the sawe lines, as did also 
and gloritied till people were sick of Me. H, Ormand of thé sacilorwisy, 


reading about it suddenly became 4 very 
poor country of poor people who could 4 resolu‘ion that the citizens of La» 
not buy the lands except ut a low price combe assem led at this meeting en- 
and on time. Only for the'action of the} thusiastically endorse.aod support the 
Conservative governwent some 28 ) ears | Proposed Exposition avd urging “upon 
since in putting through frow ocean to|°Ur members 10 “Parliament that. finan- 
‘ cial wid be granted, Was uoanimously 
carried, as was-also a resolution that the 
town council end. board of trade at once 
take steps.to organige a ‘Bacombe tom- 
mittee of the Canadian Exposition and 
Selkirk Centennial, 1912,: who will take 
care of the organization in: Lacombe and 
the surrounding district. 


‘A special train carrying about a: bun- 


there is no. question but the lands today 
would be of little value. But what do 
we find, what do we see now? Hudson's 
Bay and ©, N. R, lands. selling *from:, 86} | 
to $12 an acre and school lands have 
been known to sell as high as $20 an 
acre. Under Oliver's land bill last season 
over 2,000,000 acres of land was sold re- 
alizing considerable over 86,000,000, even 
with the conditions of settlement which 
confine the sale to certain classes only. 
But with the experience of the Dominion 
it does not look as though it would be 
necessary to wake forced sales for 
revenue. 

A return tabled in the House of Com- 
mons at the request of M.S. McCarthy 
showed that the cash recieved for the 
fiscal year of 1907 8 from the-sale of lands 
in Alberta, bonuses from timber berths, 
from coal aod mining lands and royalties 
on coal amounted to over $800,000. Out 
of this Alberta got $375,000 exqppt an el- 
lowance for public buildings atd the 
Dominion some $500,000. So it pays the 
Dominion pretty well to administer’ the 
lands and resources of Alberta, Last 
year the outpat of coal in the proviace 
was over 2,000,000 tons at a royalty of 10c 
a ton would yield more than one-half 
the amount of subsidy, With the vast 
coal measures of the province, what. will 
be the revenues when the population 
reaches, say one and a balf or two wmil- 
lion people. 

Just now according to Premier Ruth- 
erford's statement the total subsidy re- 
ceived from all sources from the Domin- 
jon government is $1,160,375. In this 
amount is the item of 6375,000 only in 
lieu of lands. When the population 
reaches 1,500,000, the land subsidy in- 
treasing with the increased population 
will be $1,125,000. The maximuw is here 
reached. But the total Bubsidy at that 
time is $2,710,375. Here is where the 
politicians have fooled the people. It 
has always been “look at the big sub- 
sidy. And tke electors were not told 
that the old Provinces that retained their 
lands and resources received the same 
subsidies and in some cases more except 
on debt allowance aud the subsidies ip 
lieu of lands. So we think anyone is 
quite justified in saying Alberta got a 
very bad deal in provincial autonomy. 

J.J. G, 


SSS eee 


FRANK VICKERSON 


Auction Sale 


BULLS 
At LACOMBE 
June 2nd 


Commencing at 1:0 p. wm; 


Passenger rates fere and 4¢ for retvro 
trip from points between Edmonton and 
Macleod and on the Lacombe and We- 
taskiwin Branches. 

Balls delivered to nearest station for 
$2 each for freight. 


62 Bulls to be Offered 


including three Holsteias; eleven Aber- 
deen Angus; sixteen Herefords: and 
thirty-two Shorthorus. 


For Bale Catalogue and further infor- 
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E, L. RICHARDSON, Pe Riakig 7 
Alberta Cattle Breeders 
Association, Calgary. 


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Notice to Creditors. 


—— 


In the estate of Andrew Gilbert- 


son, deceased. * 


Notice is hereby given pursuant 
to an order by the Honorable 
Joseph E. Noel, Justice of ‘the 
District Court of the District of 
Wetaskiwin, made herein the. 20th 
day of April, A. D, 1909, that all 
créditors and others having claims 
agaiust the estate of Andrew Gil- 
bertson, late of near Eckville in the 
Province of Alberta; who. died .on 
or about ‘the fourth day of April, 
1907, are required to send in their 
claims together with a statement , 
of securities, (if any) beld by them 
duly verified by a statutory declar- _ 
ation, to the undersigned at Eck- .') 
ville on or before the 26th day of 
May, A. D. 1909, and that after the 
said date the undersigned Admiv- 
istraton of the said estate will be at 
liberty to proceed to distribute the 
assete of the said deceased or any 
part thereof amongst. the parties 
entitled thereto, having regard on- 
ly.to the claims of which the said 
Administrator shall have then -re- 
ceived notice and shall not be liable 
for the assets of the said estate or 
any part thereof ‘so distributed’ to 
any person of whose claim the anid 
Administrator shall not bave had 
notice at the time’of the distribu. 
tion of the said assets or such part 
thereof as aforesaid. 
Dated at Eckville this 2let day 
of April, A. D, 1009. 
MARTINUSE GILBERTSON. 


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